Strictures as justice
Our transformation from a predatory state to a predatory society is complete. We have reconciled with the reality that there’s no middle way: you are either a predator or prey;…
Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear
Though it keeps resounding with “Inqilab Zindabad,” the film does little to explain the slogan that Bhagat had raised with unprecedented vigour. The most politically important scene in the movie,…
Militant economics
Let’s talk big picture. Here are some experimental thoughts that come to mind when one takes a dispassionate view of the direction we are going in. The state as the…
Poor report card
On March 14, 2013, Pakistan accepted recommendations made during its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council, promising the Pakistani people as well as the…
Beyond clichés
Pakistan’s doublespeak on security policies is notorious throughout the world. Last week, the government extended its practice of saying one thing while doing another into the realm of social issues.…
Nato’s warmongers
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has deployed reconnaissance aircraft to Poland and Romania “to monitor the Ukrainian crisis” in order to “intensify our ongoing assessment of the implications of…
Intellectual confusion
Several aspects of the present public discourse merit attention because of the way they are influencing national attitudes and shaping the country’s intellectual environment. Certain tendencies of thought seem to…
Beyond clichés
Pakistan’s doublespeak on security policies is notorious throughout the world. Last week, the government extended its practice of saying one thing while doing another into the realm of social issues.…
Managing digitized human resource
In spite the escalating rhetoric about Human Resource Management, in Pakistan, is still remains one of the most ill executed management function, is organisational context mostly due to misconceptions &…
Merkel heads to Israel with peace, Maidan, coalition in mind
German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Israel Monday, focused on bilateral ties and the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but likely distracted by Maidan Square and a domestic scandal. Israel and Germany are…
