Missing the bigger picture
IN October, as cooler temperatures arrived and smog started to fill the skies across Punjab, the provincial government rolled out the Roadmap for Smog Mitigation in Punjab 2024-2025. However, this plan raises more…
The big picture
HAVE you watched a show, movie, press conference and then heard someone talk about it and wondered whether you both saw the same thing? It is not about having different…
The bigger picture
I WAS reminded of Neil Postman, one of the most important communication theorists, media and culture commentators of modern time, while watching the talented broadcast journalist S. Muzammil Shah on…
The big picture
A position of tumult and strife is familiar territory. The economy is under severe stress, and many are beginning to fear a Sri Lanka like situation. While Pakistan is not…
‘Picturesque’ protests
In March, as Sri Lanka’s economic crisis unfolded, desperate people started gathering in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s respective official residences to protest endemic corruption,…
Picture brightens for commercial EVs on rising demand from delivery customers
Electric van and bus maker Arrival is wrestling with the global pandemic like other UK firms, but not because of a lack of business. Arrival is fielding four to five…
Emerging picture
The recovery from the economic shock of Covid-19 appears to be faster and stronger than what most had expected some eighteen months ago. The pace of recovery varies in different…
Justice Isa and the Bigger Picture
In Pakistan, the Money Trail (™) is in the eyes of the beholder. One of several pseudo-legal terms to have crept into common currency, post-Panama, ‘money trail’ is the loose…
CPEC: the bigger picture
Why is Washington making a song and dance about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)? Are their reservations with regard to the multi-billion programme rooted in deep concerns for Pakistan’s long-term…
Complicated picture
This time, nothing seems to work. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has tried every trick in the book to save his political career and to avoid possible prison time. But…
