Op-Ed: How history belies Nawaz Sharif’s ‘progressive’ politics
Power without political struggle has always been disastrous. In the chequered political history of Pakistan, there have been only two genuine national political parties....
Does law of sedition undermine free speech?
With a crime report registered against the senior politicians of this country under the law of sedition; a controversy arises: whether the law of...
The RSS’s surreptitious censorship of syllabus: An effort to distort history
Under the RSS’s influence, syllabi in several states have been surreptitiously altered to accommodate pro-Hindutva material. India’s Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr....
Demographic change: The constant Kashmiri fear
August: a month of powerlessness and repression, has indeed been unwieldy for the people of Kashmir valley since 1947. A year ago, on 5...
Op-ed: A tale of two bears
In Martin Waddell’s children’s storybook titled "Two Brown Bears", Joe Bear and Harriet Bear have fun adventures, they convert bicycles into planes and go...
Pakistan’s low saving-low investment dilemma
Saving and investment are pre-eminent variables for any developing country as they yield positive dividends to economic growth, price stability, and employment level. Pakistan...
Op-ed: Ending K-electric’s monopoly
The only way to curb power woes of the citizens of Karachi is to end the monopoly of K-Electric (K-E). As such the offer...
Op-ed: Persecution of the dalit community (down-trodden) in India
A dalit leader Chandrashekar Azad addressed a rally to demand justice for Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) gang-rape victim. He is the `Bhim Army chief’ (a...
Op-ed: US involvement in Vietnam and the domino theory
The Eisenhower government had been greatly disturbed by the 1954 Geneva Agreements, in which it was agreed ultimately that Vietnam would be unified, on...
E-governance: Transforming the operational efficiencies in public sector
The 21st century has proven to be the game-changer in Information Technology. It has brought countless revolutionary changes in businesses everywhere. The adoption of...
The principal fault in democracy: Election campaign funding
In September, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg announced plans to spend at least $100 million in the battleground state of Florida to help...
Saudi’s chairmanship of G20: A mixed blessing
Saudi Arabia’s chairmanship of the Group of Twenty (G20) is proving to be a mixed blessing. The G20 summit The country and Crown Prince Mohammed bin...