Iran back in business
A good 36 years after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iran appears to be all set as a global business player with its nuclear frame agreement made with P5+1 countries…
A good 36 years after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iran appears to be all set as a global business player with its nuclear frame agreement made with P5+1 countries…
Why should one by-poll matter in a country where politicians, judges, journalists, generals and the public – for different motivations – are habitually scornful of results of full-scale elections? There…
Here’s an odd thing: Saudi Arabia, a state with a defence budget of some $80 billion, is asking Pakistan, which spends around $7bn, for help. The answer to this riddle…
The recent murder of innocent members of the Ismaili community in Karachi was an act directed by the militants not just against a peaceful community settled in the city forever,…
Seventy-five years after the passage of the historic ‘Pakistan’ Resolution of the All India Muslim League, we must ask how two nation-states forged out of a religious minority’s fears of…
Schools and colleges in Pakistan are required to teach Pakistan Studies as a compulsory subject to students. This is essential as well as understandable as all nations mandate inclusion of…
Over a five-week period from November 25 to December 20, the Indian authorities conducted the six-yearly ‘elections’ to the ‘legislative assembly’ of Jammu and Kashmir in a timeworn effort to…
HERE’S an odd thing: while we Pakistanis unanimously profess our support for democracy, we despise politicians and admire generals. This ambivalence manifests itself in regular long marches, media diatribes and…
Being a student of media, it never ceases to amaze me how popular perceptions and opinions are formed. How tiny little nuggets of misinformation and hearsay, misconceptions, old-fashioned biases and…
The melodramatic events witnessed this week brought out a characteristic of anarchy in an advanced stage: the difficulty in determining as to who among the chaos-makers is more to blame.…