From bystanders to change agents
Pakistani-Americans have contested for a variety of public offices in the current midterm elections and there is a clear chance that a few of them will grab a slice of…
Muslim world’s VCs conference from Feb 4
Pakistan is all set to host Muslim world’s vice chancellors’ forum next month in Islamabad as Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Mukhtar Ahmed on Monday extended an invitation in…
Clearing the air
INDIAN External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s historic visit — historic because the last official visit to Pakistan by an Indian foreign minister was undertaken by his predecessor, Sushma Swaraj, in…
Golden moments of cricket
Cricket has a long history. According to the ICC website, the first we hear of it is in 1611 and it was then described as “Boys Sport”. The game caught…
Climate policy
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. The newly created office will work towards ensuring environmental justice and civil rights…
Arabs fear for wheat supplies after Russia ‘invades’ Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mean less bread on the table in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world where millions already struggle to survive. The region is…
Your weekly columnist: an endangered species?
Once upon a time there was news; compact and closely orchestrated by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Fake news was unheard of; just plain vanilla dispensed by the government.…
Rahimullah Yusufzai
With the death of Rahimullah Yusufzai, a chapter of journalism in the South Asian region has ended forever. I was lucky to have known him, and, over the years, I…
Among the best
“I hope you will write an obituary when I die,” Omar Khan Afridi once requested. He knew that I like writing obituaries about people I know – irrespective of the…
So many blind spots
GOVERNMENTS are known to have their blind spots, that is, areas of governance and issues that they don’t want to address rationally and realistically and thus create grave problems for…
