Pakistan: here and now
Essay writing as a genre has not evolved in Pakistan. If you try to count the number of essay writers that Pakistan has produced over the last seven decades, you…
Pakistan needs contraception
SOME may find the title of this article provocative and others may find it amusing. But this is a very serious issue: Pakistan needs contraception and contraceptives are not available.…
Pakistan’s viable Afghan policy
It is no surprise that Pakistan's two top security officials are in the US to meet with their counterparts to discuss future cooperation in Afghanistan. The current state of Pakistan-India…
Afghanistan and a trapped Pakistan
Though there is still some hope for peace in Afghanistan, generally the prospects of reconciliation and a political solution between the warring parties inside Afghanistan seem to be fading away.…
Educating Pakistan
IN the old days of print journalism, some of us were trained to keep the self out of what we wrote. But as all rules are meant to be broken…
Israel, Pakistan and the Muslim World
After Makkah and Medina, Jerusalem is the holiest place on earth for Muslims all over the world. There is no Muslim who has no respect for Masjid al-Haram in Makkah,…
Dealing with Covid-19 in Pakistan
The metaphor “black swan” was used in Roman literature to express impossibility as it was perceived that swans were always white. Black swans were discovered in Australia in 1697, and…
Planning for the ‘real’ Pakistan
Did we ever try to find out the reasons why the very first five-year plan authored by Pakistan succeeded in South Korea but failed miserably in Pakistan? There is, of…
Decent work’ in Pakistan
The International Workers Day is on the 1st of May. This is an appropriate time to review the working conditions of labour in the country. In particular, the focus has…
Lessons from Turkey
"Istanbul a couple of decades ago was more like an African city than a European city", said one of the Pakistanis living in Turkey for 30 years. Hard to imagine…
