My lips may be sealed, but the heart shall beat
Lips and heart are organs of the same body but, sometimes, the distance between them becomes immeasurable. Instead of the lips echoing the beats of the heart, they become mute…
A malignant appeasement
Adolf Hitler destroyed the first German democracy, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) and twelve years later destroyed Germany itself. Weimar has since become like the palantir in ‘The Lord of the…
Untapped minerals economy
Mining the earth for natural resources is a profitable business strategy employed by many nations, including China, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Brazil. The contribution of the mineral sector is multifarious:…
Controversial justice
FOLLOWING a nod from the apex court, a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) has announced its decision to sentence 25 PTI supporters to varying terms of rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in the May…
Tariffs and trade
FROM the bustling mills of Faisalabad to the humming ports of Karachi, clouds of uncertainty hover over Pakistan’s export industry as proposed tariff hikes under the new US administration threaten…
The road to hell…
The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have finally, after much toing and froing, come to an agreement to hold talks, with the Speaker National Assembly (NA) Ayaz Sadiq playing…
National security policy needs revisit
This is the second of a two-part series detailing the 2020 National Security Policy’s (NSP) ill-advised focus on economic diplomacy – ill-advised as the world moves from unipolarity to multipolairty.…
Political turmoil & reset for unity
As one of nine nuclear-armed states of the world, Pakistan plays a significant role in regional geopolitics. However, consistently plagued by political instability, it has been facing multiple challenges on…
Even-handed approach to sanctions?
What should not have happened has happened. Iran has moved the International Court of Arbitration in Paris against Pakistan for not completing its portion of the gas pipeline and failure…
At Seattle-area plant, Boeing 777X eyes 2025 commercial launch
In a mammoth factory that a Boeing manager calls the largest “on the planet” by volume, the aviation company is assembling the world’s biggest double-engined aircraft: the 777X. The Seattle-area…
