There was little in my time at Aitchison that felt as rewarding as my leaving of it. “Tell me about Aitchison. Tell me how we can be better. And...
There are days when I love my country the way a resigned parent loves a recidivist child. Viscerally, unconditionally, unapologetically, but without...
They say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But if you’re the Captain and your starting gambit itself was patriotism, where do you...
Nasty, brutish and short. That is how Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature, a setting in which there were no enforceable criteria of...
When you find yourself in a hole, keep digging. That, dear readers, may well be the ultimate epitaph for Pakistan. Everyone’s focused on the hole....
The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. And there is no purer intent than that of the lion of Mianwali. He roars at the elites,...
Sometimes your column is a blissful two weeks out, but the prime minister puts his foot in it on day two. Alas, you sigh…carpe diem.The fact that...
Lina Khan, an American of Pakistani origin, is the new chair of the US Federal Trade Commission. Lina Khan is also 32.In Pakistan, the only...
“This is a family gone to seed”.We had left the grand haveli of one of my grandfather’s contemporaries from his ancestral village. Grand,...
As our foreign minister voiced unhelpful tropes on CNN, the broader point he struggled to drive home was instead on display in a shameful full-page...
