Psy ops over, time for truth
Anyone trained in the art of modern warfare would tell you the importance of what are called `psy ops` (psychological operations). Deployed by that Nazi master propagandist Goebbels before and…
My teacher, my mentor
Professor Lawrence R Klein, the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania (herein after Penn) and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, passed…
Qatar`s World Cup: building on blood
STATES, particularly authoritarian ones, tend to shoot messengers bearing bad news. So it came as no surprise that Hussain Al Mulla, the Qatari deputy labour minister, threatened to sue the…
Killing grandmothers for freedom
Pakistan’s defence ministry told parliament recently that US drones have killed 67 ordinary Pakistani citizens in the past six years. The figure is open to dispute (most estimates are around…
Peace in Syria?
THE Russo-American accord on the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, arrived at in Geneva last month, suggests three scenarios. The immediate one is covered by the agreed Framework for…
The Hamlet in Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lives in an etherised world where time is of little consequence. Like Hamlet he is given to indecision. The prince of Denmark prevaricated because of self-doubt…
Theatre: a way out
THERE is despondency in the air in Karachi. The violence in the city that has resulted in almost 3,000 deaths so far this year has left the youth brutalised. Many…
Peace in Syria?
The Russo-American accord on the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, arrived at in Geneva last month, suggests three scenarios. The immediate one is covered by the agreed Framework for…
Whac-a-Mole with terrorism
As one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever seen, one would imagine that the Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, realises the incredible importance of timing. This,…
Close, but no cigar
Like many other matters in this country of ours, it is often the case that even where the best of intentions are applied, success is stymied by the inability to…
