Unintended consequences
Pakistan’s ‘unsettled questions’ are on full display, playing out on the streets of Islamabad and inside the hallowed halls of parliament. The witches’ cookbook has been taken out and dusted…
Exciting education
As the world population expands beyond seven billion and moves rapidly to cross the nine billion mark over the next quarter of a century, there are increasing numbers of young…
Reforming the election system
There are a number of reasons to be suspicious about Tahirul Qadri and his talk of a peaceful revolution to empower the people. He is a Canadian national who lives…
Rituals and values
The month of fasting has begun for Muslims. Fasting is perhaps the profoundest of rituals in spiritual terms as it is fundamentally about two things. First, learning to regulate our…
The nuclear danger
The trafficking of nuclear technologies and materials has been a worrisome issue since the early 1950s but after 9/11 it emerged as a global threat. This threat is totally different…
Censorship: between conservatives and liberals
Even after the remand and continuing trial of Gen Musharraf, few believed that the days of military encroachment over civilian governance were behind us. We aren’t just peoples with short…
View Point: Countering extremist narrative
It was his sheer presence of mind and some luck that journalist and television commentator Raza Rumi ducked down in his car on hearing gunshots and survived a terrorist attack…
Closing of the Pakistani mind
A Friend showed me a class four Pakistani textbook from the 1960s. It was on famous personalities. In the first section there were four chapters, including one on Prophet Muhammad…
Driving away dark clouds
One of the greatest issues we face today is that of the despondency that has descended all around us like a thick shroud. It appears to drown out hope and…
Amazing biology
In previous articles I have described some of the amazing developments that are occurring in the field of biological sciences. These include the blind being able to see with their…
