Is Modi using Israel’s tricks?
The policies and strategies employed by the Indian government and the ruling BJP in the recent past to suppress minorities, especially the Muslim community, have a remarkable similarity to what…
Confidence tricks
IN political discourse, we sometimes lose sight of the forest for the trees. It is important sometimes to zoom out and truly appreciate the forest, ask why it is currently…
Back to Musharraf’s electricity tricks?
The two announcements reported in the media this week show how confused those running our power sector appear to be. The first said the government is considering setting up mobile…
A political paradigm shift
It is needless to emphasise that the Rangers operation in Karachi – notwithstanding the tactics employed by the MQM and PPP to thwart it – has been instrumental in restoring…
Caged justice and numbed brains
“Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise./ Up from the past that’s rooted in pain, I rise./ I am a black ocean, leaping and wide,/ Welling and swelling…
What does the PTI want?
Pakistan is currently facing a very serious situation, with rains and floods having led to widespread destruction. The already crisis-ridden economy is under further pressure as a result. Due to…
Inciteful fault lines Candid corner
“And there assume some other horrible form,/ Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,/ And draw you into madness? Think of it” – William Shakespeare It is generally presumed that…
Democracy’s circus
America, the world’s richest democracy, produced Donald Trump. India, the world’s biggest democracy, produced Narendra Modi. Britain, the world’s oldest democracy, produced Boris Johnson. Brazil, the world’s largest Latin democracy,…
Rewriting Pakistan’s economic destiny
There comes a time in a nation’s history when mere survival ceases to be a virtue and becomes a verdict. When continuity without reform is not resilience, but retreat. Today,…
Education Reformer Cookbook
Last week, we heard that the prime minister intends to spend the GBP190 million received from the UK’s National Crime Agency on the establishment of the Daanish University of Emerging…
