Aitchison College building can be seen. — Aitchison College Website/FileSound educational institutions remain a proven predictor of a nation’s...
The rehabilitation of a nation after state capture is as complex as it is cumbersome
The book also recounts how Tweed courted immigrants and turned the New York Supreme Court into a “naturalization mill”
Greek philosopher Plato opined that the wealthy fostered a lack of restraint and refrained from conforming to legal and moral standards.Nearly two...
Michael Dobbs wrote "House of Cards" almost 30 years ago after an argument with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, for whom he had been chief of...
A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. — AFPPalestine was never an empty piece of real...
The Arthashastra, Chanakya’s 4BCE Sanskrit exposition, is a book on statecraft that introduced an empire-running module expounding upon...
One of the most influential political philosophers John Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract and religious toleration in the...
Mr Prime Minister, a student delegation from Harvard University sat down with you on August 26. We were graced with the prime ministerial part of...
Slavery has persisted through the ages. It is a heart-wrenching saga for the inhumanity and tragedy it entails.Aristotle and Plato are considered...
Natural phenomena have since forever challenged and threatened humankind. In doing so, they have served as imperatives to create means and measures...
The quest for immortality has been as timeless as it has been fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates...
“In wartime”, Churchill famously told Stalin at Tehran in 1943, “truth is so precious that she must always be attended by a bodyguard of...
History remembers Emperor Constantine as one who legalized and made Christianity integral to the Roman Empire. He is also credited with laying the...
Our ruling dispensations have reduced an abundantly endowed Pakistan to a pauper state. With a mere $4 billion in our kitty, we have a mammoth...
It was Nato’s provocative endeavour of extending itself to Russia’s doorstep that thrust Ukraine into a devastating war. Now India – along...
Dr Aftab Ahmad from Kanganpur was a self-made person. Doing odd jobs, he earned his MEd from Allama Iqbal Open University, MPhil from Government...
The disintegration of the Soviet Union left the Middle East bereft of any alternatives to US leadership. Washington, a prisoner of American...
“After the spring of investigations comes the darkness of vendettas. We diagnosed an illness but they treated us instead of the sickness. If you...
A rogue state is defined as one that is repressive within and aggressive towards its neighbours. It supports and sponsors terrorism, has WMDs and is...
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time...
The Guantanamo Bay detention centre remains a sordid emblem of torture, indefinite incarceration and gross human right violations. The Presidential...
Rule of law is a cornerstone of democracy. It is also a foolproof safeguard against selective justice or certain groups and individuals meting out...
The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II culminated with her transition at her beloved abode, the Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Queen...
The year 46 BC consisted of 445 days; it was the longest one in history. Such anomalies were a common feature in the Roman calendar.The greatest...
Genocides are preceded by incitement and indoctrination through widely disseminated hate propaganda. Theologian and philosopher Abraham Heschel...
On July 6, 1808 King Joseph of Spain unveiled a constitution. It allowed peasants to retain their harvests, an independent judiciary and abolition...
“Your new-caught, sullen peoples, half devil and half child, take up the white man’s burden”. These lines are from a Rudyard Kipling poem...
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy made a commencement address at the American University in Washington. US intelligence reports had Nikita...
It was on a beautiful July afternoon that Norway bore the agony of its worst tragedy since World War II. A man planted a bomb in an Oslo building...
Fiction, it is said, is a figment of imagination. However, if decades or centuries later, characters and events from a work of fiction attain...
In 1946, Giulio Andreotti started his political career as a 27-year-old junior minister. Over a career spanning seven decades, he went on to become...
In a recent interview Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi sought the West’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans....
Of all the imperatives that forge a nation, nothing could be a more potent recipe for its degeneration and disintegration than one in which human...
Over the years, India has orchestrated a mystical image for itself. It has shrouded itself in the smoke and mirror illusion of a secular, tolerant...
During his twilight years, Mark Twain agonised that “life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually...
The US constitution’s 18th Amendment, aka Prohibition, banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. President Hoover...
As the competing European colonizers became dependent on tobacco revenue, Napoleon III is known to have quipped, “This vice brings in one hundred...
The passing away of Syed Ali Shah Geelani marks the culmination of a life dedicated to the people and cause of Occupied Kashmir.Geelani sahib’s...
Ezra Pound was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. His work focused on the insanity of wars. He theorized that wars were...
India, UNSC president for the month of August, laid bare its malice and frustration by rejecting Pakistan’s request for participation in a meeting...
It would be absolutely naive to think that Pakistan’s retention on the FATF’s grey list had anything to do with our laxity in enforcing its...
Thomas Hobbes, author of ‘Leviathan’, was a 17th century political philosopher. His case rested on how miserable life could be in the absence of...
Palestine, the famed land of prophets and one of the holiest sites for 1.3 billion of humanity. Kashmir, Amir Khusro’s paradise on earth; known as...
The justification George W Bush gave for the 2003 Iraq invasion was an accusation of Saddam’s ramping up Iraq’s nuclear programme and possession...
No religion, save Islam, lays greater emphasis on education of male and female alike. Sindh Madressatul Islam gave us Jinnah and many of his trusted...
Since the dawn of time, nature remains the most consoling aspect for humankind. However, human cognitive and emotional processes are nurtured best...
