Why are people leaving Pakistan?
“It’s not just the younger lot – people of all ages turn up to my office daily. They are so tired and frustrated; it literally seems they want to run…
Flawed budgetary measures
Pakistan’s prevailing outlook paints a grim picture of a state in deep trouble. In view of perpetual political instability coupled with the economic meltdown, the country has been grappling with…
How to empower women
Buzz words such as ‘empowerment’ and ‘equality’ are often part of the development discourse regarding women in today’s world – although there is no general consensus on what these terms…
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
When Lady Caroline Lamb described Lord Byron – one of the greatest English poets – as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”, she was of course sharing her personal impressions…
War in Ukraine
Popular support for US involvement in Ukraine is based on a persuasive moral crusade most forcefully advanced by Joe Biden and other leading Democrats. Biden’s speech in Poland was one…
Minority task force
It is a matter of great honour and privilege for me that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed me chairman of a task force with a status of federal minister.…
Arms and the West
The Ukraine invasion by Russia has shocked many Westerners who had this naive belief that the horrors of war would never revisit Europe – a continent that witnessed two terrible…
Contempt versus free speech
I WAS midway reading a thesis on the effectiveness of the law of contempt at the 2004, SAARCLAW Conference in Karachi when suddenly the chairman of the session, Justice U.C.…
The good, bad and bizarre of 2021
The advent of a new year is the best time to record the highs and lows of the outgoing year, and attempt – mostly in vain – to learn lessons…
Leaders’ legacy
TRANSFORMATIVE leaders positively change a state’s direction. They induce big changes in political, economic and social institutions and policies whose influence lasts for decades to give major progress. Lincoln, Mahathir…
