The missing link
“I would like my followers to pursue the best education that can transform the individual and society toward prosperity and wellbeing. [This form of] education must promote social cohesion [and]…
Questioning South Asia
Coming back to Karachi is not always a pleasant experience. You come out of the airport on to Shahrah-e-Faisal, and apartment buildings on both sides of the road present the…
Redistribution for peace
The assassination attempt on Ahsan Iqbal, former federal minister for interior, shook the country. It laid bare the vulnerability of our society to violent extremists. Moreover, it reminded us that…
Between policy and practice
In his article, titled ‘Clearing bureaucratic hurdles’ published in these pages on November 5, 2017, Dr Mukhtar Ahmed states that “[f]or Pakistan, education is the only gateway to the country’s…
A crisis of empathy
Empathy entails the human capacity to feel and understand other people’s emotions and think from their perspective. Although empathy is a natural and automated response, it is limited to those…
Policy imperatives for CPEC
Most of the discussion about CPEC has so far focused on financing and future indebtedness but the success of this initiative lies in successful interaction between investment, institutions and policy.…
When democracy returned
The International Day of Democracy is being marked today throughout the globe. I have expressed on a number of occasions that the Pakistan Movement was a purely peaceful struggle and…
Protecting child rights in Sindh
Pakistan is one of those unfortunate countries where hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five years die each year. Only those of our children who are lucky…
Who killed Mashal Khan?
What was killed in the form of the bodily existence of Mashal Khan was liberal and progressive thinking and 21st century global thinking. But, who killed him: the one who…
On our public discourse
I acknowledge that what I have wanted to say today, after being away for a couple of weeks, has already been said in this newspaper over the last three days…
