Looking at the Indus Basin
Human history records settlements around the rivers which flow from snow-peaked mountains. The Indus River basin is one such basin; and on it depends the survival of Pakistan. This basin…
Human rights & mental health
A DECADE ago, world-renowned psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman termed the standard of mental healthcare across the world a ‘failure of humanity’. He noted that the worse deficiencies of…
Global climate jihad
EXISTENTIAL challenges define the state of the world today. They shall determine the global, regional and national contexts in which all countries, including Pakistan, will need to find appropriate and…
Untimely rains
THE worthy climate change minister must be eating her words right now. Quick to claim credit for untimely rainfall, she has since disappeared after the same rainfall became tragic. The…
Needed: a democratic world order
Although many critics believe that the two terrible world wars that killed more than eight million people in the world were waged to capture markets and colonies, the West claims…
Rightsizing
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in the social sciences to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own…
Economy at the crossroads – II
These circumstances require a 'Balancing Act' that caters for long and medium term financial requirements of industrial units, especially export-based industries. There is a serious need to change the direction.…
The privatisation agenda
Ab initio, whoever dreamt up the mechanism of State spending money that it does not have out of borrowing which it can never pay back is the unsung hero of…
New records
Around the world, atypical climate change grows increasingly threatening to all life on the planet, principally because of excessive carbon dioxide emissions. Paradoxically, this is happening on the heels of…
Perils of intervention
A cabal of Western imperialists led by US President Donald Trump is hatching conspiracies to topple the elected government of Venezuela after Caracas refused to bow to the idols of…
