Curious case of a professor’s accountability
The sight of an intellectual in chains is painful. Few days ago the social and electronic media went aghast at the visuals of a couple of high profile university professors…
Role modelling values
Children do not follow what you say but what you do. What you value you emulate. Behaviour is the key to values adherence. These are some sayings that are said…
People’s verdict
Electoral fraud is as old as choosing a ruler itself. The high priests of Rome would add days and even months to the Roman calendar to keep compliant officials in…
GoswamiGate opens
A careless moment. A reckless statement. A slip of the text. A step too soon. A pre-mature celebration. Call it what you may but the Arnab Goswami revelations are a…
Story of the last tamarind leaf
THE World Press Freedom Index listed by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) ranks India at an embarrassing142 out of 180 countries, actually two places worse than Myanmar (140). There’s respite here…
Polishing the truth
EVERY time there’s a manmade or natural global crisis, thousands of people pop out of the woodwork to claim that it was caused by dark, inimical forces. For example, if…
Any police reforms?
In January 2018, 27-year-old Naqeebullah Mehsud was murdered by the police in an ‘encounter’ in Karachi. The following year, on January 19, 2019, the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) murdered…
Our very own Nobel tragedy
Pakistan can only count itself as an unfortunate country. Its citizens have claimed two Nobel Peace Prizes, with Malala Yousafzai named as the joint winner with Indian peace activist Kailash…
