Going green
“Fossil fuels have lost”, argues Eddie O’Connor, chief executive of Irelands’s Mainstream Renewable Power company, before adding: “The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet”. O’Connor was speaking…
A day without women
The Statue of Liberty went dark Tuesday, the day after President Donald Trump signed his revised executive order, dubbed the “Muslim ban 2.0,” excluding all refugees and people from six…
Grateful for small mercies
Thanks to the mindless policies of the country’s security establishment, Balochistan has become Pakistan’s Achilles’ heel. Rather than find a sensible way out, more blunders are being committed. Take, for…
Pak-US relations in the Trump era
The most important single event in the Pakistan-US relationship in the last decade was the November 26, 2011 slaughter of over two dozen Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan…
Smart seeds
Southern Africa is undergoing the worst drought in more than three decades. More than 30 million people in South Africa, Malawi, and my home country Zimbabwe are facing hunger. While…
The new army chief
A new army chief would normally not warrant special media or public attention in most countries but in Pakistan the situation is vastly different. The Washington Post says, "for the…
The farce of the ‘surgical strike’
Growing Indian hostility and belligerence has brought its relations with Pakistan to its lowest ebb for many years. The killing of Kashmiri youth Burhan Wani sparked the worst violence in…
After the ‘surgical strike’
Did they or didn't they do it? The questions first started to be asked in Pakistan, and gradually in India too after last Wednesday night's purported 'surgical strike' in Azad…
Nuclear threat to Karachi? – II
PNRA's gazette guidelines provide for special considerations for large cities. Let me reproduce, part of para 6: A population center distance of at least one and one-third times the distance…
Cotton crisis
Pakistan’s economy is in grave trouble. According to the Pakistan Economic Survey 2015-16, it failed to meet the growth target of 5.5pc in FY2016. GDP grew by 4.7 pc. This…
