Our real asset
I have attended countless sessions of parliament during my more than 20 years of parliamentary experience. However, when Mian Shehbaz Sharif, after being elected as the 23rd prime minister of…
A metropolis in crisis
With a population of over 14.9 million, Karachi is fast turning into a human jungle with an unplanned population putting unbearable strains on the capacity of the metropolis. What was…
On a lost path
Across the world, it is difficult to find anything resembling sanity. The war in Europe has suddenly brought global attention to war, with commentators and analysts on major news channels…
Tackling a toxic legacy
One of the most toxic legacies of PTI chief Imran Khan is the weaponization of religion. Perhaps after Gen Zia, he is the second head of government who has employed…
Pakistan’s generational shift
Last year saw the publication of ‘Womansplaining – Navigating Activism, Politics and Modernity in Pakistan,’ a book edited by Federal Minister Sherry Rehman to which I was able to contribute…
Primitive politics
Einstein had a definition of lunacy: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We perhaps need a milder expression to interpret our rulers’ inability to…
Day of apology
Australians used to mark National Sorry Day every year on May 26 in order to acknowledge and raise awareness about the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…
Accountability of the educator
Everyone who is even a little bit familiar with how governance works knows that only those systems work that can be held accountable. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is a…
A humanitarian crisis
When the Americans were leaving Afghanistan in August 2021, two kinds of immediate crises were being predicted by everyone who was even remotely connected to Afghanistan. One, there was clear…
The forever problem
Education is good! Everyone in the world, except people like the Taliban, agrees to that. The question that remains is: where do countries, particularly countries like ours that lag far…
