opinion
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GB: elections and leadership
Saleem Safi
For the sake of Pakistan, the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have made tremendous sacrifices and have kept alive, with their blood, the freedom movement for their emancipation from...
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Venezuelan elections
Roger Harris
The extraordinary level of US interference in Venezuela’s electoral process highlights their importance. The US government has preemptively declared the upcoming National Assembly elections...
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Language and the written word
Zubair Torwali
Speech predates writing. Oral language is the essential language. Technically, the writing of a language is just a graphic representation of said language; and it can never represent all the...
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How should we look back?
Mahmood Hasan Khan
Nostalgia for a mythical past – and its glorification – are not therapeutic, though they may create euphoria. Literature and entertainment projecting false history to soothe a people’s...
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In the eye of the storm
Javid Husain
Pakistan is once again in the eye of the storm. The country’s external challenges are assuming ominous proportions because of India’s growing belligerence, annexation of Jammu and Kashmir, and...
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Counsel for governance
Random thoughtsBy Dr A Q KhanOne of the drawbacks of the internet and social media is that the younger generation is no longer interested in reading. What a pity! We have such a rich old culture....