The road to Raiwind
On September 15 last week, when Pakistan was celebrating the International Day of Democracy, Sheikhul Islam, Allama Professor Dr Tahirul Qadri left for London. His departure indicates that Nawaz Sharif…
Plans ABC…made in Raiwind not London
Why give London a bad name? The sophistication we are witnessing could have been concocted only amongst the rolling acres of that spot in the sun, Raiwind. The brainwave hitting…
CPEC to SIFC
A WEARY nation is being sold a new acronym-based dream about huge progress. It was Seato and Cento in the 1960s, OIC in the 1970s,; CPEC in the 2010s and…
Land-use policy
THE media is full of real estate ads offering plots of land, condominiums, apartments, one-unit houses, holiday homes, farmhouses, commercial spaces, etc, in many locations in the country. The use…
A saffron silence
HAD William Shakespeare been alive today in Pakistan, he would have given a different twist to his drama Julius Caesar. He would have reframed history in the light of our…
Unity for immunity
AS Pakistan returns to glorious hereditary rule, it helps to listen to Leonard Cohen’s classic Democracy: “I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean/ I love the country but I…
Coronalization
I coined the term ‘Coronalization’ considering its multi-dimensional and global effects. The word ‘coronalization’ is a combination of ‘corona’ from coronavirus and “lization taken from globalization. The fatal effects of…
Plantation drive
ELECTIONS are in the air, and potted plants are being transplanted to suitable soil with the most earthworms and compost available. Sunshine is essential, but the time to make hay…
What’s in store in 2023?
Pakistanis have been overwhelmed by the challenges our country faced in 2022. The collapse of economic growth, the corrosion of trust in the country’s institutions, the calamitous climate change induced…
Eid at No. 10
EIDUL Azha has finally reached 10 Downing Street. This Eid, a sacrifice was brought into the street and ritually slaughtered with a knife borrowed from the neighbour in 11 Downing…
