A complicated affair
In a recent much highlighted case, a doctor added a patient on Facebook. The matter has been dissected from all ends of the ideological spectrum and I do not seek…
A momentary lapse of reason?
In the wake of a doctor’s termination from a well-known private hospital in Karachi – for sending his patient a friendship request over the social networking application, Facebook – a…
Open doors
DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor Bajwa has recently given a very positive statement that people from all schools of thought are welcome to join the Pakistan Army and that…
Women in a strong Pakistan
I was fortunate to have grown up in a family where gender equality was not just a notion but a reality. My mother studied in Gordon College, one of only…
Our distorted sense of ‘honour’
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary has spurred a debate, with many Pakistanis expressing their opinion regarding the depiction of the country by Chinoy. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a Pakistani-Canadian national who completed her…
Improving efficiency
PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) and PAL (Pakistan Airways Limited) have often been in the news lately due to the strikes by PIA staff. We even saw some of these strikers…
What message for Karachi?
What a roller coaster week this was. It began with the execution of Mumtaz Qadri and it is ending with the political turbulence that has been set alight by the…
Equal opportunity to women benefits all
As we today mark UN Women's Day, it is worth considering what the inequality between men and women costs South Asian countries and what can be done about it. One…
An inconvenient truth
In today’s world, our lives revolve around the media, in terms of news as well as entertainment, or ‘infotainment’. Of course, the media is the major source of entertainment and…
Blind spots in rhetorical fogs
It is not easy to locate the spectra of liberal or conservative, moderate or extreme in this country. This is not unique to Pakistan. In the information age, in the…
