Hatred of all
One person is dead and other victims are wounded after a shooting at a synagogue in San Diego on Saturday, which the mayor has branded a “hate crime.” The attack…
Plastic surgery
WHAT do you think of when you hear about Rwanda? If you are into history, the Rwandan genocide will certainly come to mind; it was an orgy of bloodletting in…
Hybrid warfare
THE 2018 IDEAS Expo in Karachi featured a high-level seminar on hybrid warfare. This was a timely recognition that threats to national security can and do assume complex forms. For…
Ban all terrorism
FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met in Istanbul after the “savage terrorist attack which took the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch”. Notably, while the New…
A nation of hypocrites
When 49 people were shot dead at a Christchurch mosque in New Zealand last month, people across the country changed their Facebook display pictures to mourn the incident. In the…
The Akayesu judgment
Long before Twitter, Harvey Weinstein, and #MeToo, African women in a Rwandan village decided to speak up about rape. Their courage changed the world. Twenty-five years ago, today marks the…
Out of rage
REMEMBER Tayyaba? She was the 10-year-old child maid who was badly beaten by her employers — judge Raja Khurram Ali and his wife Maheen Zafar. A case was filed thanks…
Kashmir and freedom
There are events that define the future course of history. Mangal Pandey, a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry of the East India Company, is remembered…
A very blind India
Mumbai was a reality. It needed a more pervasive investigation to connect the dots but the facts were lost in irrational emotion. We, India and Pakistan, failed to seize the…
America’s war on Venezuela
American economic sanctions have been the worst crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of the nuclear, biological and chemical…
