Although Pakistan came into existence at a time when there was a deeply renewed focus on economic thought process globally in the wake of establishment of Bretton Woods institutions a…
THE discourse on democracy in the West — in particular — is self-congratulatory, and other systems that have delivered hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy…
When Joe Biden won the presidential election in the United States three years ago, there were some hopes within the pro-Palestinian movement that there would be a positive change in…
Enactment and enforcement of legislation against child marriage has repeatedly run into resistance that claims religious authority. Overcoming this resistance will require a wider intellectual engagement with the foundations and…
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is clearly on a mission to revive the party in Punjab, and especially in Lahore. For the first time in recent times, he tried to…
In extolling prime minister Imran Khan’s speech that he delivered in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), most of our media went on over-drive, almost celebrating as if Kashmir, with…
In a democratic dispensation the ruling party and the ones sitting in the opposition are considered to be two sides of the same coin, and the latter taken as a…
WHOEVER counselled the federal cavaliers to drop their campaign to destabilise the Sindh government has done well by the country’s democracy that still needs oxygen to breathe. There is no…
Through an advertisement that this newspaper carried in its September 11 edition, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) highlighted its achievements over the last 15 years. These pertain to student enrolment,…
So, Nawaz Sharif has decided to fight on and not give up on the attachments that put him at the head of Pakistan and Punjab’s largest political party. He may…
