Neocolonial agenda
UNDENIABLY, Israel was created primarily as an outpost of the US-led West in the heart of the Middle East for serving a neocolonial agenda aimed at projecting power in the…
Apocalypse when?
OBSERVERS of the current tensions between Moscow and Washington, amid veiled threats of nuclear warfare and warnings of massive retaliation, are divided over whether the present predicament is less dire…
Imran lbw or not out?
NEWS of Imran Khan’s disqualification has just come in. Has he become irrelevant? Absolutely not! The ECP’s decision will be challenged and may or may not stand. The disqualification, moreover, risks serious civil disorder.…
Cry ‘havoc’
WHO would disagree that armed conflict is an awful consequence of disagreement between men, their hubris, or“vaulting ambition”. Awful, but sometimes necessary. Consider the war of independence suffered by our…
Islam & rights
RIGHT from the time of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), Islam has advocated for the protection of human rights. It says that every individual — male or female — possesses a…
Promoting AI
THE launch last week of a task force on Artificial Intelligence to spur national development is welcome news. Its goal is to develop a roadmap for AI adoption in governance, healthcare, education…
Wretched of the earth
IN his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon paints a dismal picture of the Manichean world of colonial Algeria. In the suburbs, large boulevards run through neighbourhoods,…
Complicity in genocide
INTERNATIONAL courts often fail to convict a genocidal actor because legal precedents have read an extremely narrow and heightened intent requirement in the crime of genocide. Yet, the intent requirement…
Limited waiver
THE concept of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPs, had been the exclusive domain of legal, trade and health experts until Covid-19 hit the world and the acronym suddenly…
Military courts
PAKISTAN is set to try civilians in military courts for violence committed on May 9 in the wake of the arrest of former premier Imran Khan. The United Nations High…
