opinion
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Reforms in water governance
Zirgham Nabi Afridi
After nearly ten months of protests in different parts of Badin, April 3, 2019 saw a coordinated shutter-down strike in major towns across the district. The ongoing protests are against the...
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The PTI’s contempt problem
Zaigham Khan
Imran Khan has finally reached out to Shahbaz Sharif. The four-page letter he wrote last week is the first communication between the leader of the house and the leader of the opposition since August...
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Outstanding Pakistanis
Dr A Q Khan’
Today’s outstanding Pakistani is Mr Muhammad Ramzan Chippa, chairman of the Chippa Welfare Association. Ramzan Bhai has supplemented the work started by Mr Abdus Sattar Edhi.Our country has been...
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Quest for equality
Ron Jacobs
Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. He was in the city to lend support to the city’s sanitation workers, a mostly African-American workforce paid subpar wages and...
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Burden of truth and lie
Mubarak Ali
Moral values originate to fulfill the demands of different classes of a society. Lie and truth are two important values which contradict each other. Lying is used by the weaker section of society to...
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Thinking about Russia
Peter Crowley
Russians understandably credit Vladimir Putin for restoring national pride and bringing the Russian economy out the 1990s gutter. While Russians may not have confidence in their democratic...