West, ummah’s lost conscience
WHEN historians write about the period we are living in, they would feel — they must feel — compelled to call it an era where international law became meaningless, where…
Act of conscience
“If the pain has often been unbearable and the revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us the beginnings of a common understanding of what…
Justice unconscious
“SOME cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde” WE must first speak of the good. CJ Bandial tried to uphold the Constitution when the night…
Man of conscience
ON Sunday, June 13, 1971, the New York Times carried a groundbreaking report across three columns at the top of its front page under a rather mundane headline, ‘Vietnam Archive:…
Conscious consumption
As Pakistan gets the most awaited well-planned Eid gift in the shape of a staff-level agreement with the IMF, it is high time we shifted our focus on the much-needed…
Why UNSC reform is elusive
THE world has seen sweeping geopolitical changes over the past 70 years. The international landscape has been fundamentally transformed by the dispersion of power more widely among states. This redistribution…
How to manage the NSC
Given Pakistan’s political and governance history and the charring civil-military relations, there is a sense of hope and positivity linked to the public resolve by the military leadership to remain…
A farewell to conscience
In ancient Rome, as the story goes, a slave would stand close behind victorious generals as they were paraded through the streets after returning home, triumphant, from a battle. And…
Pandemic stirs Wall Street’s social conscience
Worker welfare is having a moment on Wall Street. The need to restart production lines and reopen offices idled by the coronavirus pandemic mean issues such as sick pay and…
Decolonisation in consciousness and fact
The US and subsequently many parts of the world have been in turmoil since the tragic death of George Floyd in the US, the emergence with renewed force of the…
