An analysis of Pakistan’s politics performed in the style of a laboratory experiment would include the scientific imperative that any alteration...
And so it’s a wrap. The year 2017 is over and it has left us with much to ponder. What have we learnt and how have we been tested in the last...
Together with the plethora of problems that need fixing in Pakistan, the one that ought to be on top of the list for the current government, and...
Another tumultuous week in our blighted land passes, with the rupee taking a dive and with some further adjustments to our hodgepodge political...
Radical Islam is a dilemma for the world. The West understands that since the advent of the 19th and through the course of the 20th century,...
As I write this article, the storm clouds on the political horizon appear to be dissipating as an agreement has been reached with the protesters in...
I wrote about Singapore in my previous column and described its peculiar stability and staggering achievements, despite the amalgam of...
If there is a list of splendid countries you could put together, Singapore would have to be somewhere at the top. Because, simply put, Singapore is...
In the wake of a doctor’s termination from a well-known private hospital in Karachi – for sending his patient a friendship request over...
What’s the worst kind of dish you can have on an empty stomach in a cheap restaurant? Certainly a poorly cooked one. Here’s why: when...
As she walks through Wonderland, Alice arrives at a fork in the road and inquires the Rabbit about what path she should take. “Where do you...
A picture doing the rounds on social media captures an overhead bridge in Rawalpindi with a hoarding that bears the advertisement of an internet...
As darkness descends on the NORI hospital for cancer patients in Islamabad, the tumult of activity witnessed inside its gates during the day also...
On the eve of the new millennium, at a New Year’s party, I recall the frenzied atmosphere in the countdown to the year 2000. Apocalyptic...
There is a moment in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’, where the protagonist, Nader, accuses Simin, the headstrong wife, of...
As the census results pour in, we are presented with the stark reality that almost 64 percent of our population is rural with the balance residing...
The celebrations began two nights before Independence Day and were much the same as they have been for a decade now in Islamabad. Draped in green...
My father’s generation was one of optimists. His life story is similar to that of the countless others who grew up in Pakistan in the...
Here’s a health check on the current state of affairs in Pakistan: our domestic politics are riven with no political consensus on how to steer...
