Manto’s human psyche
Three years before his death, Saadat Hasan Manto “undertook to compile a book of his friends’ observations about his personality” so that his readers “know as much about him as…
Dronespeak
The Geneva Conventions developed in 1949 codified general principles for aerial bombardment, in particular the need to discriminate between combatants and civilians and for attacks to be proportional to their…
Quarrelsome behaviour
We see no time in human history devoid of wars and killing. Human history is full of such events. Every nation takes pride in its heroes who fought wars against…
The right to asylum
In December 2012 a group of some 45, mostly Pakistani, refugees took shelter in one of Vienna`s biggest churches. Because they feared immediate deportation the church seemed a safe place…
Fraud Detection In Business Organisations
Fraud detection is a matter of identifying the people involved in the organisational process who can commit fraud and learning from people who have committed various types of fraud in…
Our common yoke
I have bad news for you, Hindu fundamentalists of India. You and our Muslim rulers stand on identical moral grounds. You decapitate our soldiers, we decapitate yours. We both condone…
Our ‘Renaissance class’
You, probably, have never heard the name Qamar Yourish. When he lived amidst poverty-stricken people on the streets of old Lahore, the rich culture of which inspires you to write,…
The new normal
It may well be grotesque, but the face of the next generation of Pakistanis is going to make for an interesting study. As evidenced by the lack of concrete measures…
18th Amendment – fallacious argument
Pakistan has a democratic government? There is no need to talk about this anymore. That devolution has taken place as a result of the 18th Amendment to the constitution. Please…
