Judicial fairytales
“Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.” — Jerome Frank, legal realist philosopher SIX recent judicial orders — one order of the Supreme Court and five orders of the…
Spending $10 billion
THE world’s first donor conference in Geneva, convened specifically to support the victims of climate-induced disaster, has pledged more than $10 billion for Pakistan. This offers Pakistan a rare opportunity to…
BookofMatches Review
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Reviewing Pakistan’s climate action
It is gratifying to see that the National Security Dialogue, which has emerged as an important national security forum, will address the existential threat of climate change at its third…
Towards industrial policy 2.0: Part – I
Recent developments in the Western countries have reopened the discourse on the need for an industrial policy. Pakistan, which has gone through deindustrialization in the last few decades, has to…
Descent into chaos
The brutal and barbaric manner Imran Khan was arrested is a reprehensible act which would forever remain beyond the realm of lawful and decent description. It is not a case…
A dog’s life
The dog population in the city is increasing at a rapid pace. You will not find a locality in the city where stray dogs are not roaming around or threatening…
Insecurity of violence
SOMETIMES it appears that not much is written about Pakistan, its society and politics, and even less is noticed and discussed. Perhaps because, as a people, we read so little.…
How long to fix Pakistan?
Too much has already been said about the current Pakistani polycrisis. Nothing said so far is particularly insightful. Of course, nothing said is particularly wrong or off the mark either…
The way ahead?
“All that we borrowed up to 1985-86 was about $5 billion; we have paid approximately $16 billion and are still being told that we owe around $28 billion. The $28…
