Lynch mobs in India: lessons for Pakistan
The writer is an analyst and commentator. The murder by lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri, UP in India on suspicions that he had eaten beef has, quite rightly,…
Amazon droughts
Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout…
Discretion and its discontents
Administrative discretion is unavoidable. Problems, circumstances, administrators are all too complex to be straitjacketed into laws and regulations. “Where law ends (administrative) discretion begins” is how the father of administrative…
The system’s revenge
Rani Bibi spent her youth sweeping prison floors, wondering if she would ever breathe fresh air again. Wrongfully convicted of murder when she was still a girl, she is now…
Terror in white
Last Thursday, a racist extremist went to two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany, randomly shooting the people there. Since smoking hookah is a Middle Eastern custom, he clearly thought he…
Bringing back ‘ill-gotten’ wealth
The task force set up by the PTI government for bringing back what is called the 'ill-gotten' wealth of Pakistanis parked in foreign countries has already held its first meeting…
The Midsummer tidings
After the Arab Spring, is there going to be a Midsummer change? The political world is seeing some unprecedented happenings. Mahathir at the age of 92 makes a comeback and…
Legal battles, education sessions and firings: Inside the fight for unions at Samsung
When Jo Jang-hee, a restaurant manager at a Samsung amusement park, tried to set up a labour union in 2011, human resources managers gathered him and some 60 colleagues into…
Long battle to stop firms bribing Africa for contracts
A spectacular probe into French tycoon Vincent Bollore over suspected graft in Africa marks a rare exception among corporate titans doing business south of the Sahara. Bollore - charged on…
The FATF tribulations
The sword of FATF, it seems, will continue to hang over our heads until after February next year when we would know our fate: whether we continue to remain in…
