Emotional innumeracy
“To be is to be perceived,” the 18th century Irish philosopher Bishop Berkeley once famously remarked. To date, refuting him has been the favourite pastime of realists, materialists and similar…
Chickens and post-ideology
Let us talk about politics which has become one of the most mysterious and pernicious affair of human societies in our contemporary world. The notion of politics as an art…
Diaspora engagement
The federal government is focusing on the contribution of overseas Pakistanis to our socio-economic development and devising different plans. However, the results have not been satisfactory which is visible when…
Living in fear
There are pockets of our population across Pakistan who never gain the privilege of living a full life with opportunities open to them or hope for their future. Almost all…
A matter of investment
Sustained by a continued flow of foreign funding, the development sector in Pakistan could not effect locally-informed social change. While this is true for most foreign aid-dependent developing nations, Pakistan…
Humanity: the next phase
It was heartbreaking, that final glance, when he saw his wife and kids for the last time. Memories flashed back, in heartbreaking cascades, of all those special moments – the…
Fruits of appeasement
Following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to acquit Aasia Bibi (who spent eight years on death row) in a blasphemy case, the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) locked down the country’s major…
Overcoming fragmented taxation
Fiscally, Pakistan is a highly undisciplined country. The main reason is scattered taxation by multiple agencies working under federal, provincial and local governments without necessary coordination and data sharing. As…
Why does militancy arise?
Ina recent discussion on the dynamics behind extremism in the country, particularly in the Pashtun belt, a number of factors were enumerated by the discussants. Broadly, the assumption seemed to…
Congratulations Fata
Finally, all the constitutional requirements to merge the (now formerly) Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have been fulfilled successfully. Geographically, Fata is a…
