‘Safe haven’ gold has a rich 3,000-year history
Gold struck a record high of $1,944.71 in Asian trading on Monday as traders piled into the “safe haven” investment, a status that is a product of the characteristics that…
A history of hypocrisy
No reasons, explanations or lamentations on earth can alleviate the pain inflicted upon humanity in Sialkot a few days back. Much has been said and written in condemnation of the…
History and truth
IT has been almost three weeks since students went on strike at Balochistan University, the flagship educational institution in Pakistan’s biggest and most brutalised province. In the same time period,…
IMF Article IV Consultation: History could repeat itself
The IMF Executive Board has just recently concluded Article IV Consultation with Pakistan. This is with a gap of more than two months after the completion of the Article IV…
Wrong side of history
In a show of solidarity, Palestinian factions have also come out in support of Hamas, saying in a statement: “The Palestinian people and their political and national forces are united…
Lost in history
On Thursday, apartheid’s last leader, Frederik Willem de Klerk, died, sparking a national conversation among South Africans about his life and legacy. Praise and support for De Klerk – who…
Afghanistan: a history of blunders
“The only thing we learn from history" – in the words of German philosopher Friedrich Hegel "is that we learn nothing from history”. Consequently, “those who fail to learn from…
Living history
LAST week the United States marked the first anniversary of the very public murder of George Floyd. The inescapable brutality of the police killing sparked protests on an unparalleled scale…
Reckoning with history
Last week, US President Joe Biden visited Tulsa, Oklahoma to publicly acknowledge the 100th anniversary of one of the worst massacres of Americans of African descent in US history. On…
Alone with the burden of history
The story of Palestine is like the story of no other country. It is spread over millennia and at any time in history, it has always attracted the attention, love…
