Memo from USA….Civil servants dichotomised
Nawaz Sharif has chosen wisely and well. His top official, according to press reports, will be Nasir Mahmood Khosa. As principal secretary to the prime minister, he will set the…
Left, right and the unknown
In a short span of time, the PPP has gone from boom to bust. One prime minister disqualified by the Supreme Court, another declared ineligible to contest the coming election.…
The present discontent in Pakistan
Pakistan has been in the shadows of various kinds and this maybe attributed to the drift in management and administration of this country. I am not going to be critical…
Halchal in the ranks
For all the fuss he created in his life ‘Maulvi Halchal’ bowed out rather quietly. A TV channel ran a bit about his passing away recently, just enough to send…
Who are the killers?
In her poignant collection of poetry, Ojagiyal Akhiyun ja Sapna (‘Dreams of Waking Eyes’), Amar Sindhu, a professor of philosophy at the Sindh University, writes of the ‘Ideal Woman’ (aadarshi…
