Capital suggestion
The Year of our Lord 2009 was about three things: failure of politics, two military successes and a determined judicial organ bent upon inducting an incisive moral dimension into the…
Tap water for all
In June 2007 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made headlines by signing an executive order banning the use of city funds for the purchase of single-serving plastic water bottles, and…
Looking beyond America
The Democrats received a punishing blow on Nov 2 as the Republicans regained the House of Representatives comfortably while cutting into the Democratic lead in the Senate. The next two…
Kidney patients in grim wait for donors in Philippines
Carmen delos Santos smiled meekly as a nurse turned on the dialysis machine that has been keeping her alive for the past five years. The 50-year-old mother of two sons…
Energy and security
The crisis in Pakistan’s energy sector is no longer confined to worsening the country’s grim industrial crisis and deepening its social chaos. It has now come to a point where…
Missing Balochistan
Even if we buy the government’s claim that the number of missing persons in Balochistan has declined, it is only because many of them have lately been found dead. Since…
10 questions for Imran Khan
Q 1: Sir, you have always maintained that militants are taking innocent Pakistani lives because the militants are being attacked by American drones. But the militants insist that they would…
Viewpoint
In a night-time attack on the Freedom Flotilla last Monday, Israeli soldiers, in the habit of massacring innocent Palestinians at will, killed 20 activists and injured several others. This happened…
Side-effect
The murder of Habib Jalib Baloch, a seasoned lawyer, former parliamentarian and secretary general of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), is the most high-profile murder of a politician after Sardar…
Peace of the grave
On June 10, 1963, President John Kennedy made a commencement address at the American University in Washington. Later, US intelligence reports had even the Soviet Communist Party Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev,…
