opinion
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A bridge from a bygone era
Touqir Hussain
The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior visiting research fellow at the National University of Singapore.Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that...
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For Pakistan, a bell hooks
Dr Naazir Mahmood
Readers may be surprised to see that the name of a person, bell hooks, is written in the lower case. Well, this is how she preferred it. The late African-American feminist writer bell hooks, who...
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Financial meltdown?
Nauman Ahmad Bhatti
The 2008 global financial crisis was one of the worst human-made economic catastrophes. It cost millions of people their homes and billions of dollars in damages. Some economists were of the view...
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Asia’s unequal face
Mustafa Talpur
Extreme concentration of income, wealth and political power in the hands of a tiny male minority is tearing our societies apart, depriving opportunities for the majority, warming up the planet,...
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American (un)civil war
Marwan Bishara
There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that ‘another civil war is likely’ compared with 43 percent who did not,...
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Celebrating radicalism
Holly Genovese
As we mourn Martin Luther King Jr and celebrate his life, we must remember that he was violently assassinated. His ideas were seen as radical and dangerous. He critiqued liberals and moderates and...
