Benazir’s death: Neurosurgical opinion
Available evidence indicates that Benazir Bhutto died of excessive loss of blood from a torn scalp artery and not from brain damage and that her death was preventable. Since the…
Election Outlook-V: Musharraf and his circumstances
"It's not Musharraf, it's the judiciary that is on trial," shouts a visibly grief-stricken lawyer at the buffet table of one of the crowded elitist clubs of Pakistan at the…
View Point: Controversial figure
Do you know who the following three personages were: Hafeez Jalandhari, Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ashfaq Ahmed? "Of course", you're most likely to say, "Hafeez is the man who gave…
Double standards of justice
If it were not for injustice, stressed Greek philosopher Heraclitus, men wouldn’t know justice. Indian Supreme Court’s judgement handing a five-year sentence to superstar Sanjay Dutt under the Arms Act…
Young, skilled, expelled: foreign talent in demand in US
They are young, highly-skilled and urgently needed by the US economy - Indian, Chinese or Eastern European high-tech experts who have graduated with a degree from an American university. But…
Khadim-e-Ala
Intention, capacity and delivery. He wanted to give 300,000 really deserving, low-income passengers a more respectable, a more efficient and a cheaper way to commute between Gajju Matta and Shahdara.…
Vote banks of the starving
Elections are round the corner and as the candidates head for the hustings it is time they focused on the issues which will make or break the country. The least…
A law in defiance of the SC
The Sindh Assembly has passed a law on February 21, forming the provincial higher education commission to control the provincial universities. At present the Higher Education Commission (HEC) that was…
Land rights and democracy
Some months ago, Dr Muzaffar A. Issani, writing to this paper, had taken a critical view of how land rights are understood. While his take on feudalism might have been…
Aid and achievemen
Speaking at an event in Jacobabad last week, US Ambassador Richard Olson said that his country would continue to build “a long-term partnership with Pakistan by extending cooperation in several…
