PPP’s solo flight
On the occasion of the 42nd death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on April 4, 2021, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari carried on the war of words…
2021: A year of space tourism, flights on Mars, China’s rise
From the Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s first powered flight on another world to the launch of the James Webb telescope that will peer into the earliest epoch of the Universe, 2021…
Russia ready to ‘fight’ for space tourism supremacy
After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world’s budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising China. Russia…
A dangerous thaw
GOVERNANCE in Pakistan, like the Arctic icecap, is melting. Its fragments are collapsing into an ocean of incompetence. Socio-geologists detect signs of an irreversible change in our political climate. Many…
Fires not the only threat facing Amazon
Raging wildfires have drawn the world’s attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world’s largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.…
With infrastructure vote, Congress gives Biden long-needed jolt of good news
With this week’s election results in New Jersey and Virginia suggesting that voters are souring on Democrats, President Joe Biden badly needed a jolt of good news. And on Friday,…
Governance by diktat
Apart from staggering incompetence, if there is one thing that has defined this three-year-long term of the PTI government is its relentless obduracy to bulldoze its way through on matters…
The next 22 months
ANY government would feel overwhelmed by the challenges it expects to face in the remaining 22 months of its 60-month term but more so in the case of the current…
A plethora of issues
Although Afghanistan currently looms large in the plethora of issues facing the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) government, its penchant for creating unnecessary conflicts that do not redound to its benefit is…
On the wrong path
After having failed to dislodge the government in the first round of agitation and lying low for more than four months, the PDM minus the PPP re-launched the movement with…
