A mafia land
When I was much younger in life, I had umpteen opportunities to have left this country, but I resisted the temptation with pride. The opportunities kept coming during later years,…
Women in artistic spotlight in mafia heartland
In the unlikely setting of one of Italy's mafia heartlands, a major exhibition of modern artworks by and about women has opened with organisers billing it as the biggest ever…
Women rebel in Italian mafia heartland
As police patrol outside and pace the corridors of her office, anti-mafia prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti talks about her specialty - breaking the power of the clans by turning their women.…
GB’s land issue
THE demonstrations that erupted in Gilgit-Baltistan at the end of 2022 have entered the new year. The mass protests against electricity shortages, reduction in the wheat quota, taxation and alleged…
Topsy-Turvy Land
In one of the books I read as a child, some naughty children ended up in a place called Topsy-Turvy Land. The place, as the name suggests, was one where…
Italy, home of the mafia, now one of Europe’s safest countries
Italy may be the land that launched Cosa Nostra, but today it is one of the safest countries in Europe, with a murder rate well below its neighbours. From the…
Attempting to demystify mafia
I only write this article because the most overused term on the media of Pakistan is the word ‘Mafia’. Sheikh Rashid, the Nostradamus of Pakistan, starts and ends his interviews…
Unmasking the ‘Mafias’
Lately the so-called ‘Mafias’ are being increasingly blamed for almost all the ills that the national economy is currently suffering from. They are being particularly accused of hoarding, black marketing…
Landed’ robber barons
Land is money. Land is power. Land is control. Land is status. Land is addiction. Owning land is perhaps the biggest symbol of ruling authority. From countries invading another country…
Land and violence
There is much outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision of June 14 in which the bench declared the leases of more than 10,000 houses fake with a stroke of a…
