Pakistan’s Financial Woes: The Bottom-Line
Economic challenges and political chaos are running wild in Pakistan. Since the inception of the country back in 1947, Pakistan...
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Perspective
The Gender Perspective Is Often Missing From Our Discussions
Although women comprise 48.54 percent of the total population in Pakistan, their perspective is missing in national policies, laws and...
The Sacred And The Dead: Notes On The Lives Of Animals
Animals and earth have to be kept outside the zone of commodification. That is possible if they are seen as...
The Past Comes Back To Hound Us – Even When We Make Amends
Over the years, you might have heard plenty of philosophical mumbo-jumbo about the past: that the past is the present;...
Where Have All The Staff Gone?
I have just returned to America after 3 weeks in Britain. Since my return just two days ago, I have...
In A Flux: Exploring The Emotions Of Karachi’s Complex Electoral Politics
According to the political scientists Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, the psychology of voters has remained mysterious and perplexing for...
How We Can Stop Turning Despots Into Heroes
When asked what the Constitution meant for him, the enlightened despot took a pause and then in his usual nonchalant...
Usman Kakar’s Legacy Of Uncompromising Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule
In his farewell address to the Senate of Pakistan, Usman Khan Kakar alias Usman Lala, while addressing the Chairman of...
Experiments In Political Engineering And The Economic Cost To Pakistan
The 1980s is the decade when Pakistan’s social fabric was completely torn apart by the self-declared reformer, General Zia-ul Haq—a...
Will We Succumb To Political Leaders Tampering Dangerously With The Fate Of A Nation?
The Quaid dedicated his life to a “land of the pure,” Pakistan. A land marked by effective constitutional machinery, well-intentioned...
The Rupee And The Dollar: An Introduction
The markets in which the dollar is traded work like any other markets of goods and services. The determination of...
Imran Khan’s Personality Has Interacted With The National Psyche In Worrying Ways
Mr. Khan’s latest constitutional breaches have given birth to comparisons with leaders like Mr. Trump whose mental health was questioned...
Violence And Sexual Abuse Against Young Pakistanis Continues Unabated
On the night of May 24, an 18-year-old boy named Jazlan Faisal was shot dead in a private housing society...
Cyber Crime Laws And Prosecution In Pakistan: The Current Situation
In the era of technology, cyber-crimes are increasing on a day-to-day basis and have rapidly caught the attention of state...
Here’s Why You Can Take The Populists Out Of Power, But Not The Power Out Of Populists
In the US, Republicans in Congress were expecting the Senate elections to be a referendum on Trump. If candidates supported...
How We Can Tap Into Pakistan’s Tourism Potential As The World Emerges From Covid
Globally, tourism has gained significance and as this industry contributed 10.2 % of the world’s GDP (US$7.6 trillion), 1.2 billion...
What I Learned From My Survey Of Educated Young PTI Supporters In A Major Urban Centre
The night of April 10, 2022 reinforced a sharp divide in the educated segment of society: between PTI supporters and...
Digital Media And Dangers To Democracy
The rapid rise of information and technology in the last decade has ushered in a new era of conflict and...
Mingling Of The Oceans: A Pedagogical Strategy To Check The Violence In Our Times
Prince Dara Shikoh was the crown prince of the Mughal Empire and son and heir of Shah Jahan, ruler of...
The Burden Of Sanctimony
“It would have been better for an atom bomb to have been dropped on the country than to have let...
Both Imran Khan And Shehbaz Sharif Highlight The Helplessness Of Their Own Parties Vis-a-Vis The Establishment
No one in Pakistan doubts the political reality that the military and more specifically its high command dominates the country's...
Why Pakistani Women Have Marched Despite the Backlash
“She is like a son to us,” said the proud parents of a daughter independently supporting her family. In Pakistan,...
Will Nawaz Sharif Dominate The System Once Again?
In 2008, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after almost seven years of exile. He found out that he was as...
Conspiracy And Our History: The Relevant Reference Is Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Not Mir Jafar
Mr. Imran Khan welcomes the Judiciary’s decision on Article 63-A as it positively impacts his politics, especially in Punjab. Political...
Is The Judiciary To Be Blamed For The Failure Of The Justice System?
The people of Pakistan see entering into litigation and courts much as one would enter Dante Alighieri’s Gates of Hell,...
Why Are America’s Solutions To Counter Mass Shootings Deeply Flawed?
The United States of America continues to suffer from an epidemic of mass shootings. The horrific and bone-curdling Uvalde massacre,...
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Siddiqui Saints Of Pat Sharif
Pat Sharif was a historical village whose landscape...
Message Of The Madman
In literature, Existentialism starts from Dostoyevsky’s famous maxim...