On partisan grounds
RECENT academic research by Zahid Hasnain, Ali Cheema, and others, on local development spending in Pale istan shows that outlays made by politicians are hardly ever needsbased and almost always…
The business start-up
The region's most dynamic yet neglected land, Pakistan, has started to pave its way to the world economy by rendering its first major and highly successful business delegation on the…
Zero option Kabul
The war in Afghanistan isn’t ending, it’s just changing gears, and much like the Chinese curse, 2014 is shaping up to be a very interesting year. On the one hand,…
Can healthcare in KP measure up?
The deterioration in the government-run healthcare system all over the country is now considered a given fact, but in some regions it is more pronounced. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province…
Risk of American failure
The idea of bringing the government of the United States of America to its knees has a certain appeal in various parts of the world. Broadly speaking, though, the reasons…
The making of an international star
The Taliban may have the Pakistani state at their mercy at least that’s what it looks like on bad days – but one thing they had sought to control, or…
The trauma of rape
Do we have increasing incidents of rape in Pakistan? Recently a large number of cases were reported of young women — even little girls — being assaulted by men. Some…
Spotlight: HR development and misguiding presentations are major challenges!: Our vibrant TV: The last part at last (for now)!
Several channels offer programmes in which people with some kind of trouble in life are advised to read certain verses from the Qur'aan "x" number of times at a certain…
Drone strikes: shirking justice
As dusk fell on the village of Zowi Sidgi in July last year, a group of labourers gathered after a long day’s work. Some sold wood for a living, others…
Quakes and tremors of other kinds in Balochistan
The two quakes that, in quick succession, shook the Awaran district in Balochistan exposed the under-development of a region where 300,000 people live scattered over a vast territory of nearly…
