Humanity’s better angels
Have you ever wondered, in those moments when the world seems especially hateful, how humanity as a race keeps going, not just on, but forward? We often seem to inhabit…
GB law needs overhaul
The Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance) Order 2009 resembles a very intricate sandcastle: elaborate in its design but devoid of structural and constitutional integrity. Even the slightest disturbance, as tiny as…
Hong Kong’s boom in American accent schools
Standing at the front of the classroom in Hong Kong, nine-year-old Charlotte Yan recites a 2008 speech by Hillary Clinton - enunciating the words with a perfect American accent. "Make…
Winds of change in Iran
It seems a thaw is taking place between US and Iranian relations which were at loggerheads for the last three decades. In fact, interplay of Iran's internal developments and foreign…
Making Pakistan a ‘part of the solution’
Next week’s scheduled meeting between Nawaz and Obama in Washington, the first between them, will also be the first at that level between the two countries after about 18 months.…
Drones and deception
It was a case of the public statement versus the leak. After his meeting in the White House Nawaz Sharif said he had given Obama the clearest possible message: “I…
Miracles as state policy
Dire situations bring desperate responses. Charlatans roaming India have marshalled armies of boon-seekers. Blind faith is a virtue of poverty, or fear of it. Which means the rich and the…
Bilawal’s high-school comedy
We should pity Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. At the age of 25 years, a young man who would it sometimes seems quite obviously prefer to be doing something quite different, has…
Water use
We have had engineers giving solutions as to how to increase the quantum of water. That by definition is a non-starter as water will always be a limiting factor. Way…
Principles of US agency law
A classical firm under US law is known as Sole Proprietorship and its owner as sole proprietor. The central actor, in the economic conception of the firm, is an entrepreneur.1…
