Materialistic metaphysics
THIS modern civilisation, which has attained for man unprecedented power, progress, and prosperity, has an inherent design fault that inexorably leads to crisis after crisis since it is itself a…
Legacy of humanity
Ratan Naval Tata, the great visionary businessman of modern history, has passed away at the age of 88. People of every religion and nationality have shed tears in his loving…
‘Deon’ dilemma
THE recent shouts of lawyers at a convention to ‘uphold the Constitution and the rule of law’ got me thinking of what exactly that means. How does one really uphold…
No saviours, please
IF I could remove one word from the dictionary, it would be all the iterations of ‘saviour’. No, I’m not selling anything remotely religious here. This idea came to me…
Clients and facilitators
THE recent incident of underage driving in Lahore in which a boy of 17 rammed his car into another, killing everybody on board, has set social media on fire. Who…
As Gen Z enters corporate Pakistan
DURING a tour of a local FMCG plant a few years ago, a senior manager mentioned a new pressure the brand was facing. He wasn’t speaking of a rising competitor…
Redefining goals
IN my first week of media ethics class at graduate school in 2016, Prof Charles Whitaker dove into the issue of how journalists should use social media. Could our opinions…
Digital eternity
WE’VE probably imagined some version of ‘I wish I had the chance to tell [someone] how much I loved them before they died’. I don’t have such thoughts for my…
Signs of hypocrites
THE subject of ‘munafiq’ (hypocrite) or its plural ‘munafiqoon’ is one of the recurring themes in Ahadith and the Holy Quran. The Quran puts ‘munafiqoon’ and ‘kuffar’ (disbelievers) together, promising…
A sensitive approach
WHEN we celebrate women, as we did last month on International Women’s Day, it is important to include women in law enforcement in the conversation. Women in law enforcement bring…
