Day of apology
Australians used to mark National Sorry Day every year on May 26 in order to acknowledge and raise awareness about the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…
National security wordplay
A reinvented wheel with spokes of jargon, cliche, and complacency was presented last month as the National Security Policy (NSP), a more comprehensive version of the Internal Security Policy instituted…
Once upon a Monday
What was Pakistan like this week in terms of its national affairs? This rather rhetorical question is prompted by an event that took place on the first day of this…
A sorry saga
AFTER a violent and politically turbulent year, my abiding image of 2018 is the handcuffed corpse of Mian Javed Ahmed, the former CEO of the Lahore campus of Sargodha University.…
We are sorry, Charanjeet Singh
With the murder – which is still being investigated – of Sardar Charanjeet Singh in Peshawar, we may have added another brutal act to our national inventory of intolerance and…
Sorry sight
It is a race to the finish line of political suicide. The slower of the two will win. In one lane is the prime minister along with his kitchen cabinet…
Climate change and national security
Climate change and its concomitant natural disasters pose a clear danger to national security in the present era of the hyper-utilisation of natural resources in the unbridled pursuit of industrial…
Late and not sorry
The events of the past few days tell us that people must say sorry when they are deemed by others to have done something wrong. Or the others, when they…
A day revisited
For many of us, March 23 brings back the fondest memories of childhood. Every year, on this day, as soon as I could haul myself out of bed, I would…
So sorry, Mehrin Kauser
Every day, evidence stares us in the face of how we have failed our people in general and vulnerable sections of society in particular; of how we fail to honour…
