Education conversation
A NARRATIVE has been created and is being reinforced that education devolution, under the 18th Amendment, was a mistake and ‘some’ things need to be brought back under the control/…
Conservation conversations
In September 2016, the world’s most unique ecology forum adopted two motions with potentially far-reaching, multiple impacts on mass participation to combat climate change. These two motions came in the…
Return of a political deal-maker
In addition to hopes of better, smoother civil-military relations with the new army chief and the head of ISI, handpicked by the prime minister, what other major development will tell…
Political economy in Pakistan
Pakistan's political system is flawed and as a result all the resultant actions and implementations are erroneous. Where is reason in the system, where is the thought process. Pakistan will…
Two conversations
I WANT to tie together two conversations about politics because they bring together some strikingly similar views of very different segments in society. I find it useful to explore the…
Looking homeward, dizzily
As the poet said: 'They are not long, the days of wine and roses'. Any extravagant retreat from the daily rigours of our lives, if we are at all able…
Regulatory challenges
The first month of 2021 was marked by two pivotal political moments across two continents, united by a curious feature of modern communication. In the United States, right-wing extremist groups…
Grappling with the message?
With Bernie Sanders out of the race and Joe Biden having clinched the nomination of the Democratic Party, it is Trump vs Biden in November, an election that looks as…
The China ‘model’
EVERY few months or so, the demand for a ‘presidential system’ of government in Pakistan makes an appearance on various social media sites. This happens most prominently on Twitter, where…
What Maryam did next
HER press conference on Saturday changed the political conversation in a flash, with everyone focusing on what she had or had not said and what it meant or did not…
