Battleground Zaman Park
By all intentions and purposes, Pakistan is being pushed into the realm of violence, anarchy and chaos. Battleground Zaman Park is an apt manifestation of that eventuality. It is a…
HEC organises consultation on Lahore Knowledge Park
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan organised a consultation session, involving academic experts from across the country, on Lahore Knowledge Park (LKP) Project to identify prospects of mutual cooperation to…
Justice betrayed
“Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man to be convicted of falsehood”,wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero in his celebrated work De Officiis, a treatise composed in 44 BC for moral…
A question of timing
THE May 9 convictions are here. Wholesale. And after a long wait — during which time most of those who were behind bars remained behind bars and most of those…
Adieu Khaled Ahmed!
My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He had been ill with an array of old age afflictions for…
Adieu, 2022
FEW will shed tears at the extinction of 2022. It has been a strange, unhappy year for almost everyone. Perhaps the most disappointed is former prime minister Imran Khan. He…
Critical challenge
WHAT we needed was a pro-people party. What we got was a “political party beyond politics!!!” The launch of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party last week is a clear message for Pakistanis…
Aborting democracy
WE have failed to democratise since 1947 thanks mainly to the security establishment as well as all major political parties. True, we are no North Korea — small buds of…
All that thunders
PERHAPS it was an overdose of news updates or just mental fatigue resulting from processing far too many stressful developments, but in the interest of transparency and openness one must…
Fault in ourselves
IT had been long in the planning and existed even longer in the predictions of analysts. The news finally came on Saturday. The judgement about Imran Khan’s disqualification and conviction had barely…
