Greek tragedy and Pakistan
The European debt crisis, which began to unravel some two years ago, has not only created widespread uncertainty and nervousness in the global market but also pushed the world economy…
The European debt crisis, which began to unravel some two years ago, has not only created widespread uncertainty and nervousness in the global market but also pushed the world economy…
India’s general election, which began last week, is as full of variety and dauntingly complicated as the country itself. The polling spreads over five phases lasting a month, with 714…
After the recent heavy snowfall in Afghanistan, the vicious cycle of bloodletting seems to have slowed down but will almost certainly resume with renewed ferocity in a few months’ time…
The Zardari government treats truth as an insignificant value which can be suppressed, distorted and readily sacrifised to the will of power. Every now and then ministers make outrageous statements…
Much of the fog that has been on display in Lahore over the last fortnight or so has found its way into the head, lending the scene an all too…
Last Thursday, massive demonstrations in Santiago, Chile, captured the world’s attention. It was not the Latin American version of the Arab Spring. It was something more, which would be unheard…
Guess what CM Shahbaz Sharif is tweeting these days: “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Well, considering that the CM is obsessed…
It took a while to register. Something was missing. Sitting cross-legged on rug-covered floors, sprawled on elaborately upholstered sofas, walking through bazaars, being driven around in the ubiquitous SUVs that…
When Bushra Gohar, one of the bright stars of the National Assembly, entered politics as a member of the Awami National Party, she did not know that “I am an…
Modern science and technologies invented through the use of modern science are the only products of the Western civilisation which have gained widespread and unquestioned reception across the Muslim world.…