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November 13, 2024
Politics first
Such scepticism is attributable to what I have come to call ‘Schrodinger’s Votes’
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June 26, 2024
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Why would you spread fake news about death of a public intellectual who is well into his 90s and has largely withdrawn from public life?
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February 25, 2023
Reimagining Pakistan
I will start the discussion on reimagining Pakistan with the most archetypal Pakistani attribute: inserting myself into a conversation uninvited.The...
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January 30, 2023
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...
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August 15, 2022
‘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....
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April 21, 2022
An inclusive setup
The dust seems to have settled on a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Domestically, there is almost no organized armed resistance. Important regional...
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February 19, 2022
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...
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January 23, 2022
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...
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December 05, 2021
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...
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June 05, 2021
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...
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March 13, 2021
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...
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December 24, 2020
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...
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September 15, 2020
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...
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August 17, 2020
Women in politics
The Free and Fair Election Network ’s report, ‘Women Parliamentarians Performance 2018-2019’, evaluated the performance of women...
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October 28, 2019
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 ...
