Shifts in the Palestinian struggle
The Israeli brutality on the Palestinians spanning over 11 days was symptomatic of a larger pattern that has informed Israel’s forever war on Palestine. The Netanyahu government’s policy of using…
Not in the name of freedom of speech
The way the mainstream media spread fake news in reporting a Lahore High Court order pertaining to a case of repeated commission of contempt against higher judiciary should give a…
State-Owned Enterprises: Hard to swallow, harder to spout
The prevalent view, informed or not, is that State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are bad news. They are perceived to be inefficient, anti-merit, and prone to cronyism and graft. They have a…
Fighting fear
At a recent deliberation of a group of opinion-makers and thought-leaders – many with experience in governance and policy formulation – there emerged a consensus that the PTI government had…
The aftermath
Politically, the government and the opposition had three choices to resolve the impasse arising from the Panama leaks. One, they could have found an in-house solution to the problem, replacing…
The power albatross
In April 2008 as the world oil prices crossed the $140 per bbl mark the oil-based high priced Independent Power Producer (IPP) model came home to roost. The model protected…
Saving the airline
Let us first accept the facts. PIA is under by around Rs350 billion. Its total assets do not make up for this amount. Even if they did, which they do…
The first of many steps
Over the last year or so, leading up to the Afghan presidential elections, much and more has been written about what’s possibly in store for the country in 2014. After…
View point: Saudi annoyance with UN
Something unprecedented happened at the UN last week. Within 24 hours of winning a non-permanent member seat on the UN Security Council, Saudi Arabia announced its resignation. The country had…
Syria: proxy war
Between them, the Western countries and the Gulf kingdoms have turned the Syrian people's pro-democracy movement into an unrelenting unwinnable civil/sectarian war. As Syria continues to soak in the blood…
