Human hybrids in economic system
What is more important - knowledge of economics as taught and practised in the West or Wisdom as practised in the East or local level ethics? Pakistan has always been…
Gas crisis
Pakistan produces around 4 bcf per day (bcfd) natural gas out of which 3.2 bcfd is available to the two Gas Utility companies viz SSGC and SNGPL. The balance is…
Nawaz in Wonderland
PML-N’s 2013 elections manifesto brings to mind the fairy-tale ‘Alice in Wonderland’. “If you don’t know where you are going, then it doesn’t matter which way you go”. This seems…
Texas grid braces for possible power company restructuring
The Texas power grid, already struggling to attract new generation to avoid rolling outages as demand grows, now may have to cope with a potential restructuring of the largest owner…
Cyberspace and mischief
Here in Pakistan, we’ve unfortunately had to become used to horrifying images and advertising intruding upon our online lives. Many of the violent extremist groups operational in the country display…
Cultured lives
Good news may seem hard to come by, but in large part that is because it does not sell newspapers or grab headlines. This is not a local phenomena but…
The paterfamilias metaphor
The ‘paterfamilias’ metaphor for the chief justice because of his role in administrative issues has something about it. Every now and then it provokes its critics into angry tirades. Is…
The coming wars
"Changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals - from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable lands - are likely to become a major driver of war…
Whatever happens at the border
One step forward, two steps back. That appears to be the norm of the dysfunctional India-Pakistan relationship. You make a little progress, inch by painful inch, dragging yourself up the…
Political jugglers
The whole nation is aware (and sick of) the terrible mess in which our beloved country Pakistan finds itself today. Our younger generation is extremely worried, mostly unemployed and has…
