Trying to look at Pakistan through Piketty’s prism – II
4. Pakistan is world’s only country where majority of the elected members of its parliament decided to give it a new name— Bangladesh; 5. Pakistan is the only country where…
‘I will return’
Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a deep blue hospital gown, Imran Khan held forth from his hospital room on Friday evening as if he were on the container or…
Ten years in Pakistan
We as a nation portray the image of our country very poorly. Rather than creating a good image, we are often portraying an unflattering picture of Pakistan. We should strive…
Unbelievable violence
As an academic whose career focuses on writing and teaching about children and war, the latest conflict in Ukraine should be tragically all too familiar. But, in one real sense,…
The return of militancy
n 2014, and soon after that when the broad-based National Action Plan was worked out by all major political parties, the people of the country had real hope that the…
The horror of war [Part – II]
In his book ‘What Every Person Should Know About War’, the late Chris Hedges explains the phenomenon of defence employment, which witnessed ups and downs. Hedges asserts that the 2003…
Eco crimes
On Feb 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The assault, by what’s widely considered the second-most powerful military in the world, was on…
Normalizing apartheid
The international community was jolted, halted, dismayed and alarmed by the sudden news of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s death by an Israeli sniper in Jenin. The news coverage, the…
Teachable moment
Seventy-seven years ago the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and three days later, Nagasaki, resulted in immediate deaths of approximately 120,000 majority civilians and by…
Other people’s wars
WITH war raging in Ukraine, I picked up a book by Ukrainian author Ludmila Ulitskaya. The book, titled Jacob’s Ladder, begins with a memorable incident. It is the 1980s in…
