CAA: stay home, stay safe?
PIA’s journey from ‘great people to fly with’ to ‘sadly no one wishes to fly with’, is a five-decade story. It mimics the systemic institutional derailment (especially of state-owned enterprises)…
Modi: a gift for Pakistan?
India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a radical turn, one that confuses nationalism with exclusion, centralism with suppression and authoritarianism. While many see India’s rise as regional dominance,…
The ‘end of India’
In 2003, the legendary Indian writer Khushwant Singh published a small but searing book titled ‘The End of India’. In it, he issued a bleak warning: that India, if it…
Modi’s new abnormal: Part – II
India’s strategy ignores the costs of provocation in a landscape already scarred by extremism. It also ignores the fact that Pakistan’s counterterror operations have evolved significantly since the era of…
Pakistan is no Poland
Fascism cloaks itself in patriotism, reinvents history, recasts supremacist dogma as cultural revival and dresses mass delusion in democratic garb. By the time the world recognises the stench, it’s already…
Cool escapes
MOUNTAINS measure time in millennia. The sight of Nanga Parbat’s peak from the plane as we neared Gilgit reminded me that PIA’s aircraft and I had grown older: the Himalayas…
India’s Waqf question
In a country that prides itself on its diversity, secularism and inclusive ethos, the recent approval of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 has cast a shadow over India's commitment to…
A city in chaos
Karachi is internationally referred to as the ‘City of Lights’ and the ‘City of the Quaid’ It is not only the largest city in Pakistan but also one of the…
Realistically speaking, the economy has improved
Making comments on financial issues without any expertise in the subject matter or without receiving concurrence from the experts has become a widely adopted approach. Recently, I saw numerous remarks…
Hook-line-sinker
THE Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of India allows persecuted minorities belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain, and Christian communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan to gain Indian citizenship.…
