Cities can save us
Recent research shows many reasons why city development is at the heart of progress, growth and development. All major scientific, social, political, economic and technological innovations have taken place in…
Drones, wounds and privilege
S. Akbar Zaidi’s recent article in these pages (November 8, 2013) on my film, ‘Wounds of Waziristan’, is replete with ad hominem attacks. He misrepresents what he does know, makes…
Thoughtless economics
The international agencies have done it yet again with us. They have taken us to the brink before and they will do so now. The reform decisions of Musharraf's time…
Dangerous trends in rural areas
Pakistan is governed in a miserable way. For what our policymakers do not see does not exist. Pakistan is full of self-opinionated anchors and self-opinionated civil servants. Well, all of…
Whose land is this?
MR Abid Hasan Minto, president of the Awami Workers’ Party, has done well to go before the Supreme Court to challenge the 1990 judgement of the Federal Shariat Court’s appellate…
Hating Malala
WHY do they hate her so? At least with the TTP it isn`t hard to figure out: Malala has publicly and powerfully defied them. But why do so many ordinary,…
Control of the narrative
The emerging narrative in Pakistan, especially in the Punjabi mainland and the urban centres of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, shows that the militant discourse is fast moving from social to…
Need to rethink policing
THE public is beginning to realise that the police force cannot deliver what it promises. In Police for the Future, David Bayley asserts that dependence on law enforcement for crime-control…
Death of rationality
We get readily inflamed on being accused of being a failed state or failing society. But can we fathom the reasons or logic to explain even to a sympathetic observer…
Need to rethink policing
The public is beginning to realise that the police force cannot deliver what it promises. In Police for the Future, David Bayley asserts that dependence on law enforcement for crime-control…
