To prevent rape, fight masculinity
One month on, public outrage at the gang rape and barbaric brutalisation of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi, causing her death, refuses to die down. Among the factors driving…
Our growth diagnostics
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina opens with this line. This dictum holds true not only for…
The Monti option
Pakistan will hold its next parliamentary and presidential elections this year. Many Pakistanis see this first ever completion of its term by an elected civilian government as cause for celebration.…
Why nations fail
Some books should be made mandatory reading not just for Pakistan’s parliamentarians but its power elites. Two relatively recent books deal with a theme I have touched upon extensively since…
Spotlight: ‘Popular take-over’ of the government in the offing?: Spanner in the works or saviour? Your choice!
Politics is in something of a commotion following Allama Tahirul Qadri's ultimatum, MQM's firm opposition to fresh delimitation of constituencies and to voter-lists correction, Sindh's unequivocal stand against Sindh Peoples…
Dunciad democracy
It was through the cracked facade of our political system that former premier Gilani squeezed to the PM house. His worst indictment is that he scorned the ‘base degrees’, the…
Their best is not good enough
By the looks of it, the Romans considered civilization as a way of living, an attitude of mind, of which the foremost principal was equal respect for men and their…
David Cameron’s outburst
David Cameron, currently prime minister of the United Kingdom, is one of the brightest British politicians in recent memory. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and graduated with…
Irrelevant economists
A large majority of economists in Pakistan are completely irrelevant to issues related to Pakistan’s economy. This is not to deny that they are exceedingly well-trained or well-qualified. They have…
The land where hatred lives
According to conservative elements, at least a million people died as two countries were torn out in South Asia from a single mass. The degree of brutality seen, the manner…
