I will start the discussion on reimagining Pakistan with the most archetypal Pakistani attribute: inserting myself into a conversation uninvited.The...
Anachronism : someone or something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present.Pakistan has...
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....
The dust seems to have settled on a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Domestically, there is almost no organized armed resistance. Important regional...
Although there is an unmistakable march of secularism around the globe, religion continues to play an important political role in many...
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...
We have a humanitarian crisis, a tragedy, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Between September and October, it was reported that 19 million...
A few years ago, I was teaching ‘rational choice theory’ in international relations to a class of students. The theory, in the interest of...
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...
