The silliness can wait
When something like the Wagah suicide bombing happens the immediate focus, to the exclusion of everything else, should be on the victims. Are they being taken care of? How are…
Games of fraud
The story on the Axact company’s educational fraud, broken by the New York Times has created waves, big waves, that have stirred up an immediate storm. This then is the…
Why we need public intellectuals
When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani said of the Indian media during the Emergency that “when asked to bend, they crawled”, he received widespread praise from the intelligentsia and…
Budget proposals-VI: No SROs please!
The Finance Minister, Senator Ishaq Dar, in a press conference held on May 11, 2015, claimed that through recently-promulgated Finance (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, power of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)…
Metro to resolve problems in one go
Metro bus project Rawalpindi-Islamabad is not merely a bus service but a comprehensive package of facilities that aims at ameliorating the citizens' lot who hail from different segments of society.…
A heatwave in Karachi
One more chapter has been added to Karachi’s chronicle of adversity. This, after all, is a land of magical uncertainties where demons and dragons have lurked in the shadows. But…
The Karachi tragedy
Hospitals overflowed with the victims of heatstroke and the mortuaries had no room as the death toll spiralled. Heatwaves are not unusual in summer, but last week was exceptionally hot…
Thar coal prospects
Nestled beneath the vast desert terrain of Tharparkar lies the solution to Pakistan's rapidly escalating power crisis. Over the course of the past few years, Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company…
Collectivism and consumerism
We live in a collectivist society one in which individual decisions matter less than that of the family or broader community within which he or, especially she, belongs. The notion…
Learning from Uncle Sam: to Russia’s annoyance, US hones Ukrainian fighting skills
Tense Ukrainian soldiers with assault rifles creep stealthily around mock houses before bursting in to clear out gunmen, while others practise setting ambushes or infantry assaults, all under the watchful…
