What’s a corridor without cultural backup?
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” – Twelfth Night The British came to the Subcontinent and brought with them notions of…
VIEWPOINT: PTI turning into a family enterprise?
Speaking with journalists the other day at an Iftar reception, hosted by Arif Nizami as Chairman Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid could not but take a dig at PTI Chairman…
Pakistan’s ‘gone girls’
Nearly every woman in Pakistan has been witness or victim to it. A woman, an aunt, a sister, becomes pregnant. If she has daughters or even if she does not,…
What’s all this about, Axactly?
I don’t know what has been more nerve-numbing: the Axact expose published in the NYT last week; the priggish denials by the bigwigs of the Axact empire in the wake…
Defeat of Galloway
In the 2015 British elections, Respect Party leader George Galloway, previous MP for Bradford West, lost his seat to a newcomer on the scene, Labour Party member Naseem (Naz) Shah,…
Worker protection
Fifty years ago, Dawn reported that Gen Ayub “reiterated his Government’s determination to break up the concentration of wealth and ensure equitable distribution of national resources, which belonged collectively to…
Promotions held up
An anecdote about the judicial system of Pakistan refers to the following conversation between an elephant and a cow in a jungle. The elephant found a cow looking for a…
Census & disability
The census forms the basis of all activities of the government, from economic management to infrastructural and institutional development, provision of basic human rights such as security, health, education and…
Accountability through taxation
We only pay lip service to the problem of corruption in Pakistan. When it comes to actual practice, our hypocrisy stands badly exposed. While voting in elections or finding marriage…
Idea versus expression test under US copyright law
Copyright law does not protect ideas or other no-expressive elements of a work. The law protects only the elements of work that are considered as creative expressions such as a…
