Lest we regret
“MY admiration and respect for you are going up at the same rate as your progress towards a decision to grant military aid to Pakistan,” Saadat Hasan Manto wrote in…
Martyrs of democracy
“I feel very emotional about coming back to my country. I dreamt about this moment for so long. I hope I can live up to the expectations of the people…
A Muslim military alliance?
This is a good time to be an observer. The world is being repurposed but a bad time to be a participant or activist. You could end up being martyred,…
Regional political upheavals
NEPAL is in the midst of significant political upheaval. Mass protests, overwhelmingly populated by young people, have led to the ouster of the government, after initial retaliation by security forces…
Big Tech and digital hate
Scientific thinking, rational approaches, humanism, religious tolerance, diversity, democracy, freedom of speech, and gender equality were some of the most significant fruits of the Enlightenment movement that helped pull Europe…
Pakistan’s ‘charter of economy’
There have been periodic calls for continuity in economic policies, regarded as critical by successive economic team leaders, to achieve development – a call that in the past decade or…
American reckoning
I have met people who gave me grace in Iran, in Mexico, in Haiti, in Gaza, in Cambodia, in Vietnam. People who understood the difference between ordinary citizens and the…
The US is nobody’s ally
QUITE a few in India, America and Europe seem to have sighted a terrifying apparition with horns and canines as it were. A faux debate has been unleashed over Narendra…
Judges speak out
JUSTICE Athar Minallah was right when he said that the acceptance of hybrid rule means “there is dictatorship and there is no constitutional governance”. But matters go to another level when federal…
A vanishing global order
The international order, as we knew it, may be in its death throes, but the disorder we see around is not the birth pangs of a new international order. There…
