Space for dissent
Pakistan’s blistered soul faces challenges from overlapping factors of ideology, language, ethnicity and multi-denominational belief systems. Within this disparateness, the pulpit is a constant that can unite or divide. Right…
Six-point survival kit
If you are you shocked, dear reader, with the recent spate of murders of civil society activists. If you feel an inescapable sense of dread when you hear of bomb…
Malala, Salam, Faiz and Dr Khan
In Pakistan, with Malala Yousafzai winning the Nobel Peace Prize, it is proven once again that those subscribing to conservative social and political views reject new facts if they challenge…
A paradigm shift?
President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Pakistan is being hailed as a watershed moment. Realising its promise will be a longer-term process. Hopefully, the expectations generated by the visit will be…
Asylum rights
THE handling of the predicament of Pakistanis seeking asylum in Sri Lanka these days has come in for much criticism by human rights advocates. We as a nation are in…
Rated for language
Over the past week, the PTI’s azadi dharna has witnessed the frightening spectacle of a rhetorically belligerent Imran Khan.He has used words for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the former…
GSP-Plus and labour compliance
Previously a beneficiary of the tariff cuts under the Generalised System of Preference, Pakistan is one of the 10 countries which have been granted the Generalised System of Preference Plus…
Right to privacy
Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi faces two contradictory trends. In the elections to three state assemblies, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party made an impressive showing.…
Why Pakistan should speak up on Syria
Pakistan will have to speak up on Syria whether we like it or not. We had better make up our mind on what we are going to say. There is…
The twelfth man
Mamnoon Hussain has been elected amid controversy as the twelfth president of Pakistan. Nine of his predecessors were either power-addicted generals or devious politicians who did incalculable harm to the…
