Dr Aamer Raza

Dr Aamer Raza

  • Politics first

    Politics first

    Such scepticism is attributable to what I have come to call ‘Schrodinger’s Votes’

  • Navigating the digital seas

    Navigating the digital seas

    Why would you spread fake news about death of a public intellectual who is well into his 90s and has largely withdrawn from public life?

  • Reimagining Pakistan

    I will start the discussion on reimagining Pakistan with the most archetypal Pakistani attribute: inserting myself into a conversation uninvited.The...

  • The tragedy of irrelevance

    Anachronism : someone or something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present.Pakistan has...

  • ‘I am a light tower, your call!’

    This urban legend is told in many ways, but here is, hopefully, a useful summary. A battleship, moving in the fog, notices light immediately ahead....

  • An inclusive setup

    The dust seems to have settled on a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Domestically, there is almost no organized armed resistance. Important regional...

  • Islam, governance and the Taliban

    Although there is an unmistakable march of secularism around the globe, religion continues to play an important political role in many...

  • Making a human

    I recently read Bill Bryson’s book, ‘The Body: A Guide for Occupant’s. The book starts with an intriguing question – how much would it cost...

  • The question of recognition

    We have a humanitarian crisis, a tragedy, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Between September and October, it was reported that 19 million...

  • Rational choices

    A few years ago, I was teaching ‘rational choice theory’ in international relations to a class of students. The theory, in the interest of...

  • Post-pandemic world

    Most people in our part of the world must have heard the Sheikh Chilli story. For those who may have not: once Sheikh Chilli was on a tree chopping...

  • The constitution matters

    Teaching about politics at any level, one has to inevitably talk about the constitution of a country.And when you are teaching students who are...

  • Stop blaming the victim

    Most sensible people are rightfully indignant at the remarks of the CCPO Lahore in which he appeared to blame the victim of the recent motorway...

  • Women in politics

    The Free and Fair Election Network ’s report, ‘Women Parliamentarians Performance 2018-2019’, evaluated the performance of women...

  • Pakistan and the FATF’s sword of damocles

    Pakistan and the FATF’s sword of damocles

    The Financial Action Task Force’s decision-making body, the FATF Plenary, decided to keep Pakistan on the list of ‘Jurisdictions with Strategic ...