Narrowing the gulf
In a recent visit to Beijing to attend a seminar, the earnestness of Chinese scholars to wish for Pakistan to come out of its multifarious troubles was unmistakable. What was…
A faraway land
After reading my previous column ‘Getting education right’, published in these pages on January 13, many readers wondered if peace and harmony could be achieved through education in Pakistan. As…
New domains of progression
Tharparkar symbolises the peaceful coexistence of various communities that are knitted together by the economic and cultural necessity for survival. The agro-pastoral economy of subsistence livelihood has provided little space…
Marx and the end of orientalism
In ‘Marx and the End of Orientalism’, Bryan S Turner has critically explored the inherent theoretical flaws of both the traditional sociological approach and the Hegelian/Marxist approach. This book is…
Hybrid warfare and centre of gravity
This year (2018), we heard the word ‘hybrid warfare’ ad nauseum within Pakistan and also in many Western strategic and leadership circles – as if this were a new discovery,…
The fight for food
Over eight decades ago, the Dust Bowl devastated over 100,000,000 acres of agricultural land and the Great Depression threw 15 million Americans out of work. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted…
Corrupting health
Over half the world’s population is denied essential health services. This means that scores of communities cannot get the medicines they need, have no hospital to go to, are not…
An artificial revolution
In his statement to the World Socialist Web Site’s January 16 online webinar, ‘Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship,’ Wikileaks founder Julian Assange warned of the immense dangers posed to humanity…
Determining development
In today’s globalised world when capital can freely move across national boundaries, any country can attract as much investment as it needs. The only thing required of the host country…
A false analogy
The recent thaw between Seoul and Pyongyang has rekindled hopes for an Islamabad-New Delhi detente. If South Korea and North Korea, which have for decades remained at each other’s throats,…
