Luxury firms pin hopes on China
Clad in a black and orange Prada winter coat with a diamond-shaped pattern she snapped up during a trip to Milan, Jennifer Ren embodies China's nouveau riche. For the 27-year-old…
US ‘democracy agenda’ in ME
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, expressed her government’s “disgust” at the uncooperativeness of Beijing and Moscow on the Syria Resolution that called for the ouster…
Afghan assembly stalemate
The failure of the newly elected Afghan Wolesi Jirga — the country’s national assembly — to elect a speaker of the house in more than seven rounds of voting indicates…
The meaning of Modi’s victory
With Narendra Milosevic Modi’s third consecutive victory, Gujarat has taken a big step backwards and India has suffered a political setback. The result will raise Modi’s ambition to play a…
Abdullah Haroon
Haji Abdullah Haroon, whose death anniversary falls on April 27, was by all accounts an extremely compelling personality. He was multifaceted, his role multidimensional. A businessman, a social worker, a…
Connecting the dots
The terrible wound suffered by Jinnah`s Pakistan on Dec 16, 1971, has to a great extent now healed. Yet the question of the surrender of Pakistani forces on that day…
No time for mutiny
The symbol of an Anglican bishop is a crook (a hooked staff); and that of an archbishop is a double cross. Coincidentally, that’s what many of the English used to…
For Middle East, Nobel prize a blessing or curse for Obama?
Jimmy Carter received the Nobel peace prize nearly a quarter of a century after he helped broker the 1978 Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt. Barack Obama received it…
Dynastic politics
South Asia has been the most prone to dynastic politics. Ever wondered why 51 percent of all the poor in the world live in South Asia? Dynastic politics is “a succession of rulers from the same family or line”. In North Korea, Kim Jong-il took over the reins of power from his father Kim Il-sung.
