opinion
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The roots of corruption
Kamila Hyat
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. Political corruption and its fall out is again the centre of discussion, with threats to ‘shut down’ Islamabad and...
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From brinkmanship to de-escalation
Imtiaz Alam
To our relief, messages have been exchanged between India and Pakistan to not further escalate a volatile situation in the Subcontinent. Are we still ready to accept the limits of our...
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Our brand is crisis
Fahd Humayun
At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the chances of escalation to war were assessed to be ‘between 1 in 3 and even’. A decade and a half since India and Pakistan resorted to...
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Is no-peace, no-war sustainable?
Dr Akmal Hussain
The human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir had reached a level of brutality to be considered atrocities, when the Uri attack took place. Both the essentially indigenous popular mass...
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Green accounting
Anwar Hussain
A growing population and expansion in economic activities have an impact on resource use and environmental degradation. Advanced countries grew at the cost of degrading the environment, while...
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Power hypocrisy
Mark LeVine
Whatever their past, or allegiances or entanglements, we can assume that both Clinton and Trump would, each in their own way, like to be remembered as having in some fundamental sense significantly...
