If we ever pause to observe the scale of technological advancement human civilization has achieved, our jaws would drop. Satellites orbiting the...
Let’s start with the strengths. There is a new government under a new administration. As always, there are supporters and detractors – as there...
The greatest challenge Pakistan faces today is not its tax-to-GDP ratio, or fiscal deficit, or corruption, or any of other semantics we loosely...
Is modernity the answer to all human woes? Ask a modern liberal and the answer is a resounding yes. Enlightenment values, the liberals argue, are...
It was heartbreaking, that final glance, when he saw his wife and kids for the last time. Memories flashed back, in heartbreaking cascades, of all...
Think of a young man, let’s call him Jack. Jack has just hired a personal assistant, Bob. Bob’s job is to record Jack’s every movement. If...
For most of their history, humans lived in tight packs of hunters and gatherers. The life of an average human resembled a single-shooter game, only...
Forget personal integrity or charges of corruption and incompetence against the leaders: the Panama havens and the forgotten Swiss accounts. Forget...
L P Hartley once said, “The past is a foreign country”. He clearly wasn’t thinking of Pakistan when he said this.As election season draws...
The future is both scary and fascinating. If it wasn’t, its many depictions would never have caught our fancy – in early mystical traditions, in...
Consider, if you will, a scenario: in light of the Panama leaks and the growing chorus demanding that he step down, his eminence, leader of the...
