Let’s go nuclear — safely
My house in Islamabad has been running mostly on nuclear energy for about two years now. Nearly eight light minutes away a highly efficient nuclear fusion reactor, using Einstein’s famous…
Capital suggestion
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) had found Pakistani banks “guilty of promoting cartelisation”. An inquiry committee of the CCP, headed by CCP senior member, cartels and trade abuses, had…
From KP: lessons in humility
A lesson in humility was long overdue for the PTI and its infallible supremo, Imran Khan; it has finally come in the shape of the local government elections in Khyber…
Space for dissent
Pakistan’s blistered soul faces challenges from overlapping factors of ideology, language, ethnicity and multi-denominational belief systems. Within this disparateness, the pulpit is a constant that can unite or divide. Right…
Understanding the west – again
“And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear”, said President Obama at Cairo University…
Greece shakes Europe’s political kaleidoscope – expect the unexpected
By catapulting to power an improbable alliance of the hard left and nationalist far right, Greece has shaken up Europe's political kaleidoscope and may have signalled the end of an…
War on terror: the sequel
A new kind of war is in progress in Iraq and Syria as the US and its western allies bomb Islamic State targets. They are being helped by their Arab…
Nato’s new missions won’t solve Ukraine, Iraq crises
Nato leaders emerged from a summit in Wales with a plan to protect eastern members from a resurgent Russia, a pledge to reverse the decline in their defence spending, and…
Russian food embargo a big blow for EU producers: industry
Russia's embargo against food from the European Union will affect 10 percent of the EU's food exports and may cause a crisis of glut in Europe, industry experts said on…
A sinister kind of silence
We live in a society that seems to have parted ways with the faculties of reason, rationality and basic humanity. These qualities are in so many ways crucial to life…
