Land of opportunity
FIRST: it’s not necessary that every investigative story like Dubai Unlocked can or will, in and of itself, cause the government to fall or the prevailing order to be unsettled.…
Ordinary Pakistanis are not citizens
It has been an eventful week, with more than its just share of tragedies. While the genocidal Israeli war on the Palestinians continues with ferocious horror, the news of Iranian…
Darkness at noon
Every week, in these tumultuous times, there is this fresh onslaught of “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” in the context of what is happening in this country. Writing a…
Systemic nurturing of tragedy
At least twenty-three dead bodies in cars, on their way out of Murree. ‘Januaries’ seem to be particularly brutal. January 4, 2011: the Salmaan Taseer assassination. January 9, 2018: the…
Brand Ambassadors
Brands are a very important corporate asset. Some technology brand’s current value is between US$150 billion-200 billion. Some brands are worth more than the whole company valuation. Hence the focus…
Travesty unlimited
DEATHS and disappearances, of the enforced kind in particular, in Balochistan do not seem to gain much traction in the media for reasons that, reinterpreting the words of former US…
The NROs that matter
IN other parts of the world, there is a flavor of the month or the restaurant which shines bright for a couple of months before falling by the wayside but…
Honouring martyrs, healing wounds
Almost every week there is news of the death and destruction terrorists continue to try to cause in Pakistan – especially in the parts of the country where the mountains…
Pakistani electoral mosaic
With general elections due somewhere after mid-2018, the expectations of the people and the stakes thereof have evolved dramatically with the political scenario changing almost on a daily basis. The…
Licence to kill
A gun is a tool for enforcing law and order for security forces. When it becomes a tool to victimize and kill people it becomes a murdering weapon. Such murderers…
