‘They only live who dare’
Pakistan, and to a lesser extent, the international community waited with bated breath in the hope that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to Malala Yousafzai. Had this…
Qatar`s World Cup: building on blood
STATES, particularly authoritarian ones, tend to shoot messengers bearing bad news. So it came as no surprise that Hussain Al Mulla, the Qatari deputy labour minister, threatened to sue the…
Killing grandmothers for freedom
Pakistan’s defence ministry told parliament recently that US drones have killed 67 ordinary Pakistani citizens in the past six years. The figure is open to dispute (most estimates are around…
Drowned, sinking deeper in debt
Pakistan, drowned deep in debt, is sinking deeper and deeper with each passing moment. The situation, if not remedied on a war footing, will eventually lead the country to an…
A narrative to be discarded
THE hatred heaped on the iconic, defiant teenage survivor of Taliban oppression, Malala Yousafzai, is symptomatic of a much wider malaise. Whatever the more immediate reason(s) for demonising her, the…
False prestige
So addicted is the Indian power elite to being treated as the representative of an unstoppable rising great power that it finds the recent decline in India’s global stature and…
Mourning a villain
The death of a man who waged war against the Pakistani state and was responsible for the slaughtering of thousands of innocent men, women and children should have come as…
Need to rethink policing
THE public is beginning to realise that the police force cannot deliver what it promises. In Police for the Future, David Bayley asserts that dependence on law enforcement for crime-control…
Death of rationality
We get readily inflamed on being accused of being a failed state or failing society. But can we fathom the reasons or logic to explain even to a sympathetic observer…
Questionable law
The prime minister has done well to seek the opposition parties’ support for parliament’s endorsement of the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance. It would have been better if he had also…
