Back to the cold war?
The US and the European Union have come out with fresh economic curbs on Russia in a bid to bring it to heel over the Ukrainian crisis. Does the Washington-Moscow…
Fixing the internal threat
For more than six decades, the Pakistani state has witnessed several phases where its writ has been challenged by various factors within and outside the country. The latest, seemingly toughest,…
Fault lines within the Right
After the initial persecution of the Communist Party and its various arms, and the socialists and trade unionists by the state, the pure Left in Pakistan continues to remain organisationally…
The narrative hijacked
Keeping in view certain developments over the past year, one is not surprised to see that religious militants in Pakistan seem to have hijacked the state narrative on two distinct…
Quiet flows the Ganga
Not completely unperturbed by the poisonous politics and man-made pollution it carries on its meandering journey — and yet staying stubbornly unrelenting in its stoic composure — the Ganga has…
Ignorance is fatal
The Pakistan Army has been ordered “to assist in providing security to polio vaccinators in the country”. This is a welcome development, because it will save lives, yet it is…
Time to outsource operations
Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Limited and one of the richest men in the world, famously called ‘outsourcing’ a “very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity, and reduce work…
Many Canadian aboriginals see no compromise on oil sands pipeline
Just a few miles from the spot where Enbridge Inc plans to build a massive marine terminal for its Northern Gateway oil pipeline, Gerald Amos checks crab traps and explains…
How the US made its Putin problem worse
In September 2001, as the US reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington's imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that…
Uneasy partners
There appears to be no shortage of books published in America these days that warn of China’s looming challenge to the US or of its approaching ‘domination of the world’.…
