Dr Adil Najam

Dr Adil Najam

The writer is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, former Vice Chancellor of LUMS, and lead author of the Pakistan National Human Development Report on Youth.

  • Pakistan’s youth moment

    Pakistan’s youth moment

    That Pakistan is a young country is not news. You don’t need research to know this fact. You just need to look around you. Any street. Any...

  • When the young cannot be young

    A little more than a year ago and less than a week after the horrific attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School , I was in Charsadda. At the New...

  • Education innovation

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • How cricket explains Pakistan

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Idiots

    No. I am not trying to insult your intelligence. Merely to provoke it. Yes. The headline is designed

  • March 1940: What were they thinking?

    Tomorrow we will go through the motions of celebrating Pakistan Day. With song, slogan and sincere b

  • Shun entanglement, embrace engagement

    Thomas Jefferson, the greatest of America’s founding fathers, described good foreign policy as “peac

  • Talk, time and tactics

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Talk tamasha

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Five uncomfortable truths

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Salam, Abdus Salam

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Aitizaz Hasan, Chaudhry Aslam, me and you

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • A diplomacy of friend-making

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Does Pakistan have friends?

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Not all is wrong in Pakistan

    The writer has taught international relations and public policy at Boston University and the Fletche

  • Remembering Bhola

    The writer has taught international relations and diplomacy at Boston University and at the Fletcher

  • Goodbye, Mr Mandela. And thank you

    A giant died in Johannesburg on Thursday. On his road to greatness he achieved many staggering feats

  • Privatisation. Yes. But, why?

    The writer has taught public policy and international relations at Boston University and the Fletche

  • We need more diplomacy, not less

    Much has been made not entirely unfairly of the fact that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been spend

  • Interesting times

    Turns out that the ancient Chinese curse, ‘may you live in interesting times’, is neither ancient no