Stretching the truth
Besides the recent dastardly attacks on policemen and Rangers in Karachi, the TTP brutally beheaded 23 Frontier Corps men who had been in its custody in Afghanistan. Why are we…
Privatisation or the sale of the century?
The regressive fiscal measures taken by the PML-N government in its first nine months in power make it abundantly clear that PM Sharif’s ‘most experienced’ team has no interest in…
Germany’s utilities struggle to adapt to renewable revolution
Faced with a plunge in profits, Germany's power utilities are having to bend to the will of the government and join the renewable energy revolution, while smartening up on the…
Zombie idea
THE government has announced a privatisation plan to sell off state-owned entities including ones that have `blue chip` status in the Karachi Stock Exchange. The argument given is that such…
Being human in Bollywood
Alia Bhatt is barely out of her teens and is just one-film-old in Bollywood parlance. The star was recently in the news with bigwigs such as superstar Salman Khan and…
For US Gulf Coast crude oil market, choppy waters before the flood
With this week's launch of a long-awaited new oil pipeline from the US Midwest to the Gulf Coast, traders are on high alert for a flood of crude they expect…
An eventful year
Pakistan is an eventful country but some years are more eventful than others. The year 2013 was one such year. In this one calendar year, heads of all state institutions,…
The anti-nuclear lobby
Last November, Nawaz Sharif performed the ground-breaking ceremony of Pakistan’s largest nuclear power project, Kanupp-II and Kanupp-III. China will provide the two reactors, as well as a concessional loan of…
Spectre of targeted killings
Two-Year-OLD Zala, cradled in her uncle’s arms and chewing gum, was completely unaware that she was participating in the funeral procession of her father. She had no idea of the…
Learning to live with inflation
We have not been able to get the better of inflation. It is generalised and above comfort level. This is a huge challenge, unless we can learn to live with…
