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Freeing The Archives

Freeing the archives

Just over a year ago I finished my term as director of the Punjab Archives Digitisation Project. We started the project in 2016 under the leadership of the then chairman…

Mirza, Ayub and the IWT

Where Mirza had stalled, Ayub expedited. Ayub told President Eisenhower that “the talks were going well and would soon result in an agreement” and explicitly welcomed US and Bank financial…

Tragic collapse of Pakistan’s bureaucracy

Once, Pakistan’s bureaucracy stood as a pillar of governance in the sixties, entrusted with the nation’s future. Today, that edifice is crumbling—its foundations weakened by decades of decay. A recent…

Heinz A. Kissinger

HEINZ Kissinger sloughed many skins in his 100-year-long life. He shed Heinz to become Henry, his German ancestry to become an American, his original faith Judaism to become a faux…

Not an elitist festival

Despite all the criticism for being an ‘elite’ show for ‘burger’ families, the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) organized by the Oxford University Press (OUP) remains a fest for those interested…

The rise and rise of Trump

Is the wave of neo-populism declining across the globe? The answer to this question is still ambiguous. However, from the tempestuous exit of Imran Khan and the defeat of Jair…

Rule of law

On June 13, Donald Trump appeared in federal court and pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges leveled against him for putting national security secrets at risk and obstructing investigations.…

Ethics and politics

Last August, the FBI raided former US president Donald Trump's resort home in Florida. They searched for and confiscated a large number of classified documents that were in the former…