Reckless leadership
The crashing of a passenger aircraft carrying hundreds of human beings is a tragedy that impacts the lives of thousands of the victims' survivors. Malaysian Airlines' flight MH17 tragedy was…
Latvia’s former KGB headquarters gives up its dark secrets
The "House on the Corner" was one of the most feared places in Latvia during Soviet times, but now people are flocking to the former KGB headquarters in the capital…
PM treads prosperity path
Instead of getting unnerved over the threatened long marches and protest rallies, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed his resolve to foil all conspiracies with the support of other…
Constitutional political economy: Pakistan’s perspective
Please understand that this article is an intellectual endeavour in which the notions of efficiency and justice are necessarily balanced. One may well ask the question that in my country…
A farewell to reason
When I pulled back the curtains of my hotel room in the morning, it was raining and the sky was heavily overcast. It felt like an impressionistic painting framed in…
More trade options
PAKISTAN’S commerce minister Khurram Dastgir Khan says that a trade deal between Pakistan and India appears likely this year, even though matters between prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi…
The one-year itch
HERE’S an odd thing: while we Pakistanis unanimously profess our support for democracy, we despise politicians and admire generals. This ambivalence manifests itself in regular long marches, media diatribes and…
Pie in the sky
Governance in Pakistan has gone haywire. No, this state of affairs is not due to the ubiquitous Gullu Butt, but has resulted more from the lack of institution-building over so…
Aping the march
Most of our current set of politicians attempt to sell clichéd slogans, borrowed ideas and half-baked truths to their followers. Originality and creativity is certainly not their forte. The very…
Nuclear risk reduction
In the 21st century, South Asia faces an uncertain future where the forces of cooperation and conflict are simultaneously at work pulling the region in opposite directions. On the one…
