Neocolonial agenda
UNDENIABLY, Israel was created primarily as an outpost of the US-led West in the heart of the Middle East for serving a neocolonial agenda aimed at projecting power in the…
Decaying morals
A THRIVING, harmonious society is based on certain moral values that God has ingrained in human nature. When nations forgot or deliberately decided to forego these values, messengers were sent…
Distant echoes
ISRAEL prides itself, not unreasonably, on its intelligence-gathering capabilities. This applies internationally, with Israeli apps offering the go-to spying software to a range of reprehensible regimes. But within Israel and…
Apocalypse when?
OBSERVERS of the current tensions between Moscow and Washington, amid veiled threats of nuclear warfare and warnings of massive retaliation, are divided over whether the present predicament is less dire…
Confessional box
“In that shame, still live my sorrow’s rage” — Shakespeare TELEVISION’S prime is over. News channels that is. But in Pakistan, like many other truths, an artificial ecosystem keeps it…
The Peca menace
THE FIR registered against Senator Azam Swati fits a pattern visible since 2017: use of Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016, with cognisable sections of…
The trouble with technology
AN important global debate is underway about the disruptive impact of new technology. There is no doubt modern technology has been a force for good and responsible for innumerable positive…
Give peace a chance
LACK of awareness within civil society, weak political manifestation, institutional gaps, misconceptions, and over-expectations from peace talks and amnesty schemes have cast a shadow over a pragmatic approach to dealing…
Jenin revisited
LAST week’s Israeli ‘special military operation’ in the West Bank town of Jenin has been compared, in terms of its intensity, to a 2002 assault during the second Palestinian intifada.…
‘We’re worth it’
LATELY, I’ve been wondering what I’m worth. I don’t mean this just from a self-esteem perspective or a religious one. I’m thinking, instead, of how much my life is worth…
