Is it time to worry?
The most recent case of mpox was reported at Islamabad International Airport on December 18, 2024. This adds to a total of eight cases confirmed this year in Pakistan. All…
Is it time to worry?
The most recent case of mpox was reported at Islamabad International Airport on December 18, 2024. This adds to a total of eight cases confirmed this year in Pakistan. All…
Fighting entropy
“Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites”, wrote Edmund Burke in the summer of 1791. French rage…
Restoration, 2024
IN 1660, Charles II returned to England to reclaim his throne, after years of exile in France. This year 2024 marks the restoration of another monarchy, in Pakistan. Here, history…
Whither Europe?
SHORTLY after Joe Biden and a phalanx of European leaders gathered in Normandy last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that launched the endgame in the…
Critical days for Modi and rivals
THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in Prime…
The fanfare and hullabaloo
Opposition parties have slammed India’s ban on a new BBC documentary about the Gujarat pogroms of 2002, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the new chief minister of the state, having won his laurels…
The Egypt model
IN his book, Ruling Oneself Out, sociologist Ivan Ermakoff makes an important distinction between ‘surrender’ and ‘abdication’. Surrender refers to an unwilling decision imposed because of external constraints, such as a…
Putsch and shove
NEARLY 100 years ago, a bunch of radicalised, extreme-right Bavarians launched an audacious attempt to capture power locally, with a dream of subsequently extending it across Germany. The November 1923…
Will it be 1977 or 1999?
WHAT a dramatic few days these have been, even by Pakistani standards — triggered by the arrest of PTI leader Imran Khan on Tuesday in Islamabad and his triumphant return…
