The brain regain
In 1968, while studying at the Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom, I needed to visit a hospital. There I met a doctor who, to my surprise, spoke…
The poor have rights too
The conventional approach to economic development based on technical solutions to poverty has failed to deliver. Billions of dollars are spent every year in aid to poor countries but alleviation…
Bard for our times
A Copy of William Shakespeare’s complete works was once smuggled into South Africa’s Robben Island prison, in the guise of a Hindu prayer book. It passed from hand to hand,…
David fells Goliath
The Sindh High Court has championed the rightful cause of the citizen once again and rendered a momentous judgement awarding record damages against the largest foreign bank in Pakistan for…
A deadly disease
The world commemorates Thalassaemia Day in the first week of May. Since this disease can be fatal, is extremely painful and requires costly treatment, much is done to try to…
Walking, ‘talking’ drilling rigs aim to modernise fracking
The backbreaking life of a roughneck, the iconic worker bees of oilfield drilling rigs, is getting a little easier. Schramm Inc, which built the drilling rig that four years ago…
“Great Stretch” to secure Greek debt return
Call it the Great Stretch. Two years ago, Greece's debt crisis almost brought the euro zone crashing down. Now European partners are preparing to ease Athens' debt burden without writing…
Pricing probe threatens Britain’s liberal energy market
An investigation of possible price collusion by British energy suppliers is likely to undermine the market framework that has helped make them more valuable than their European rivals. The probe,…
Lebanon faces battle as it targets natural gas reserves
Despite their troubles assembling a fully functional government, Lebanese authorities are at last in a position to start tackling their patch of one of the world's biggest and most politically…
Marginal and fragile areas: Will democracy work?
Is democracy the panacea of all the ills that are facing this nation? The answer as any one will tell you are that one shoe size does not fit anyone…
