A new Bangladesh?
EIGHTEEN months on from the momentous mass protests which upended political life in Bangladesh, the long-awaited general election has finally come to pass, ushering in what many are celebrating as…
Return to democracy
DESCRIBED as the most consequential election in its recent history, Bangladesh last week voted to provide the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) an overwhelming majority. The polls have ended the political…
A new Bangladesh?
EIGHTEEN months on from the momentous mass protests which upended political life in Bangladesh, the long-awaited general election has finally come to pass, ushering in what many are celebrating as…
Staying relevant
PAKISTAN has officially joined the Trump-led Board of Peace (BoP), aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza. This decision reflects Pakistan’s usual realpolitik approach to the Middle East. However, in Pakistan, realpolitik…
The false rumble of change
THE world is in ferment but is South Asia feeling the rumble? Europe is on edge. It’s losing the Ukraine war, and the leaders of France, Germany and the UK, to…
Tunnel vision?
IDEAS, good and bad, have a strange way of persisting and penetrating all sorts of barriers — geographical, cultural, linguistic, and above all, time. The edicts of a man who…
Faith, fear, fragility
FEAR and anxiety have deeply penetrated Pakistani society, undermined social cohesion and eroded the social fabric. One of the major factors responsible for this state of affairs is religious bigotry,…
Lamenting a glorious city
IT is a city that houses major financial, capital, and industrial services and labour markets, and provides livelihoods to millions of people. It generates more than half the total federal taxes,…
Custodial deaths
THE death in police custody of 29-year-old Rizwan Asad Pandit in the early hours of March 19 in Srinagar has aroused strong condemnation by unionists, separatists and civil society alike.…
Education under attack
ON the sidelines of politics, it seems that political parties and their governments have much in common despite their constant snarling at one another. And I do not refer to…
