Human genius
In recent days, the situation in the Middle East has reached the worst level in the history of the region. There is no precedent for such militant attacks, inside the…
Prioritise
Problem number one: Inflation. The price of wheat-flour has gone up by 100 percent over the past three years. The price of sugar has gone up by 100 percent. The…
Half stability?
A recent surge in militant attacks across the border regions became a powerful reminder of rapidly mounting challenges surrounding Pakistan’s future outlook. Coming just months after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s…
Fighting TTP and mistrust, Pakistan marks one year polio-free
Bathed in the crisp morning light, Sidra Hussain grips a cooler stacked with glistening vials of polio vaccine in northwest Pakistan. Watching over Hussain and her partner, a policeman unslings…
Walking the talk
THE government is ready to talk once again, says the prime minister though no one knows if the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is willing to walk the talk. But always keen to follow…
A vicious cycle
How pitiful it is when twins cannot live together in peace. Seventy years of living in close geographical proximity but without much interaction have made the twins strangers at best…
Modi’s threat
INDIA’S election continues to move apace — sadly, to the beat of war drums. In recent weeks, Prime Minister — or should it be ‘Chowkidar’ — Narendra Modi has transformed…
Putting the foreign policy in order
A little more than a year ago, while addressing the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, President Xi termed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)…
Engineering extremism
Within our own country as well as beyond, there has been much focus on madressahs or seminaries promoting extremism, in some cases violence too, through their teachings and philosophy. However,…
Radicalised women
Two young Pakistani women, two different trajectories. Within days of Malala Yousafzai being named UN ambassador of peace, Naureen Leghari was arrested in Lahore before she could carry out a…
