The end or a new dawn?
Ever since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the triumph of liberalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union – the so-called ‘red peril’ – many around the world celebrated liberalism as the…
Cookie crumbles
ONE did not know how, but there was a feeling in the throes of the Berlin Wall’s fall and the right’s celebration of the Soviet Union’s demise that the failure…
How to solve the leadership crisis
Poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.” This profound wisdom from Daron Acemoglu --recent Nobel laureate (October 2024) in economics and co-author of…
Milei, Argentina and Pakistan
ARGENTINA, in many respects, resembles Pakistan. Once the superstar economy of South America doing reasonably well, it has had to go through repeated economic turmoil through decades, making it a familiar…
When protests go too far
The recent brutal crackdown on protesters in Islamabad has not only brought the streets of the capital to a standstill but also ignited a larger conversation about the very nature…
Lessons from US
America and Pakistan are two totally different countries, and their democracies are very different breeds. Yet the recent US elections have some relevance, if not lessons, for Pakistan. The majority of Trump supporters were…
Nemesis over America
The choice between Donald J Trump and Kamala Harris in the US presidential election was irrelevant to one fact: the ongoing decline of the United States. It has lost leadership,…
Countering terror — beyond labels
During the past few weeks, terrorists affiliated with the TTP), Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have been referred to by Pakistani authorities as Khawarij. This term,…
Iran ‘news’ sites, hackers target Trump ahead of US election?
Iran is ramping up efforts to interfere with the US election with fake “news” websites and hackers targeting Donald Trump, American officials and researchers say, as the Republican nominee reported…
Mourning a friend
THE legacy media seems to have learnt no lesson from its debacle in the US presidential election, as its coverage based on its preconceived notions about the events in Amsterdam…
