The race for the Arctic
The “race” is on. The Arctic is open for business. Thus runs the decade-old narrative on the Arctic, depicting it as a new open frontier replete with riches up for…
John Bull’s little island
Like lemmings the British have hurtled over the precipice into an economic and political abyss by voting to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum. The immediate fallout…
Powerlessness of the street
How many protesters make a political tsunami? Imran Khan had promised a tidal wave of one million of them to ‘lockdown’ Islamabad on Wednesday. His plans, we saw, went awry…
Sharifs’ flawed defence
The Panama Papers have led to resignations of heads of government (Iceland, Ukraine), Spain's industry minister and release of tax returns by others (UK and Russia). Significantly the US President…
Tax havens or safe havens?
The Panama papers are an unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world's fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossak Fonseca. The records were obtained from an…
Viewpoint: Towards a PML-N minus N?
Years ago, Shobha De, a well-known Indian novelist and columnist, wrote an interesting piece about a party she had attended in Lahore, her point of interest being Tehmina Durrani, then…
Sharifs’ flawed defence
The Panama Papers have led to resignations of heads of government (Iceland, Ukraine), Spain's industry minister and release of tax returns by others (UK and Russia). Significantly the US President…
More women win power but still few and far between
Led by Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and Theresa May, there have never been so many experienced and ambitious women in positions of influence, even if they remain heavily outnumbered. Clinton…
In Denmark, au pairs risk abuse in name of ‘cultural exchange’
Dressed in a red-and-black lumberjack shirt, jeans and sneakers, she looked more like 16 than her actual age of 19. The petite au pair wrung her hands as the policeman…
Refugees: key to Europe’s future
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. The past couple of weeks have been rather traumatic. I found myself hanging between the extremes of hope and despair,…
