Look to science
Like the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic is slowly unfolding in Pakistan. If we go by the available data, the Covid curve is headed relentlessly upwards. This means…
Science versus dogma
There was this front-page photograph, published on Friday, in which a member of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee is looking through a very large telescope at dusk on Thursday in Karachi. This…
Finance Bill 2017: Why tax exemption for political parties?
In a country where the Finance Minister is accused of money laundering [What did Ishaq Dar 'confess' to during the Hudaibiya Paper Mills reference in 2002, Dawn, April 20, 2017]…
Reviving science
AS our economic situation (particularly the exchange rate parity and balance of trade) has worsened over the last few months, everyone feels an expenditure squeeze. There is likely to be…
Mainstreaming science
The twentieth century was marked by burgeoning technological advancement around the world. World leaders developed an unequivocal realisation that political and economic development would, in future, depend on scientific and…
Mistrusting science
ONCE upon a time, in a small village in Punjab, a poor family gave up their young daughter to the wife of the zamindar, whose haveli was located in a…
Science under Trump
Somehow, some way, we have made it to the end of 2017.And what a long year it’s been. Looking back, it is almost unbelievable how much damage the Trump administration…
Paralysis of political thought
So, Nawaz Sharif has decided to fight on and not give up on the attachments that put him at the head of Pakistan and Punjab’s largest political party. He may…
India’s conscience
It has been more than a year since progressive students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) ignited a countrywide movement against the excesses of the Indian state. Long considered a denizen of anti-establishment…
Beyond political change
It is commonly believed that democracy results in a government elected by the people to ensure their common welfare. If it does not live up to people’s expectations and fails…
