Consultation on HDR 2014
The Human Development Report Office of UNDP New York, UNDP Pakistan, and the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) jointly organised a two-day South Asian Regional Consultation on Human…
Uneasy unload
During the run-up to Election 2013, the phrase ‘baba ta easy load ka’ (send baba some easy load) had become the bane of the ANP’s existence. Talk about the 800…
Superior but terrified
Khayyam Mushir is like a brother to me. Being a chartered accountant, perhaps there is no other person in Islamabad of his age and in his profession, who is such…
Fiscal sovereignty for Pakistan
If the starting point for analysis in the post Hakeemullah Mehsud world is that he was assassinated by the US with malign intent, (and clearly there is plenty of political…
As change seeps in
When you travel from Karachi into the interior of Sindh (a colloquialism for rural Sindh, or pretty much anywhere outside of Karachi or Hyderabad) the landscape immediately changes as soon…
Realignment of ties
The most serendipitous emerging foreign policy event for Pakistan, provided its leadership has foresight, is the ongoing power realignment within the Muslim world, as international engagement with Iran looms on…
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…
Militants die young
Life expectancy among militants is low – and lower if someone is a commander. But there seems to be no dearth of men willing to step forward and replace their…
Nakhra for sugar daddy
It is perfectly possible to be anti-TTP and anti-drone simultaneously, without making any moral equivalence between the two. The TTP is a murderous cult that deserves no sympathy. Drones operated…
Why isn’t the national flag flying at half-mast?
And why hasn’t a ten-day mourning period been declared for Hakeemullah Mehsud? To hear the tearful reaction from some of our politicos and television pundits it would seem it was…
