Climate takes backseat in Italy vote despite extreme events
From parched rivers to a glacier collapse and this week’s deadly storms, Italy has suffered numerous climate events this year — but many politicians pay the subject little more than…
Questionable role of KSE chairman
The Board of Directors of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has recently approved the product of "Margin Trading System" (MTS) and sent it to Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)…
A century of bookselling
Not many readers would have visited Juna Market, the commercial hub of Karachi where hardware and spices compete with halwa puri to find buyers. In the ocean of commodities catering…
The split over nominated chairman of KSE
The SECP has expressed its concern over the reports, appearing in print and electronic media that members of KSE are campaigning against a non-member director as chairman of KSE and…
PTI’s reality check
While an anxious nation was watching developments taking place in Islamabad on Tuesday, something significant happened in Karachi. The venue was the Pakistan Stock Exchange where the KSE-100 index suffered…
Blurred boundaries
As I sat on a live talk show recently, discussing the high-stakes COP29 summit in Baku and the mounting climate crisis, my call for Pakistan and India to one day…
IMF’s risk assessment: eyes half shut
The first coronavirus outbreak – SARS – in the shape of epidemic happened around the beginning of this century. The second coronavirus epidemic – MERS – struck around the close…
Is it really ‘none of your business’?
‘Mind your own business’. ‘What is personal is not professional’. ‘Do not mix business with pleasure’. These are some of the wise comments that we have heard over a period…
Fading literature: Delhi’s famed Urdu Bazaar on last legs
In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a language beloved by poets…
Why insecure?
IN his memoirs, Foundations and Form, Mukhtar Husain writes about his first school experience: “In 1955, I started attending Mrs Corks’ Private School which was run by a British lady,…
