What’s up at KESC?
If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ll notice a campaign is under way to lionize the former CEO and current board chairman of the Karachi Electric Supply Company — Tabish…
Martian chronicles
A Recent editorial in this newspaper drew our attention to Mars One, an ambitious project that aims to take volunteers to the planet on a one-way trip to set up…
Battle of ideas
The ideological battle lines drawn in the aftermath of Pakistan’s creation continue to haunt us even today. One recent example of this came when needless fuss was kicked up over…
The tussle on board
Now, some of us were hoping Zaka Ashraf would act sweet and volunteer a ‘no’ to the latest call by the Islamabad High Court that reinstated him as the chief…
PPP’s fortunes
As 2014 begins to unfold itself, one important question is: Can the PPP, until quite recently the country's largest and the most popular political party, revive its fortunes? In a…
Flight of the spoons
Lonelier than the man without love is the man who has once known power and then, by cruel circumstance, is deprived of it. In his days of glory what crowds…
Authority versus influence
Nelson Mandela, who breathed his last on December 5, was an inspirational leader and truly an iconic figure of the 20th century. His eventful life is marked by many achievements.…
The economics of microcredit
The story goes that Dr Muhammad Yunus, a professor of economics, was strolling in a street of a village in Bangladesh back in 1976 when he happened to see a…
What remains sacred?
Spurning advice not to return to Pakistan and face a myriad number of legal problems, Musharraf successfully managed, by default, to put the army as a whole into the dock.…
Dead Johnnies
How would you feel if somebody said that oh, you know, people from the intelligence agency of a foreign country came into one of your cities, killed a couple of…
