Education: A privilege of the rich

Nauman Sadiq | We commit a big fallacy when we assume that our educational accomplishments are our individual achievements. We like to believe that we...

Imran Khan’s buddies in the league of the lions!

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The Panama Case has entered its decisive phase and by the looks of things, the Sharif family is on the...

The Al Capone formula?

Ikram Sehgal | This week the Panama case entered its last, and possibly decisive round. On May 16, 2016, the PM had unequivocally stated in...

Is Nawaz Sharif finally reaching his end?

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The Panama Case has reached its culmination point. Amid all hue and cry, the three-member bench of the Supreme Court...

Fake News: an age old phenomenon

Pope Francis shocks world, endorses Donald Trump for president." “Clinton's assistant J. W. McGill is found dead.” “‘Tens of thousands’ of fraudulent Clinton votes found in...

Is slavery in U.S really that different than in North Korea?

Jacob G. Hornberger | Sometimes the mainstream media can be entertaining without intending to. A good example appeared yesterday in an article about slavery in...

Deconstructing Trump: Iran sanctions

M K Bhadrakumar | There is an old impish yarn that Noah was stunned to see the two cats he’d put in the Ark trooping...

Pakistan’s private media: Free or captured?

Faiza Rafique | Pakistanis are still celebrating their fantasy of “free media”; ironically the penetration of vested political and economic interests in country’s so called...

Lunar and Solar eclipses: how and why astronomical study originated

In August, a total solar eclipse will traverse America for the first time in nearly a century. So many tourists are expected to flood...

CPEC: Prosperity project

Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Operationalisation scope of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been entire Pakistan, therefore, the project would virtually connect all the...

Is democracy consistent with Islam?

Nauman Sadiq | Some people are under the impression that democracy and Islam are incompatible. But I don’t see any contradiction between democracy and Islam,...

Our government needs to stop looking at our private parts

M. Usama Khawar | Last month Pakistan’s government handed out its first death penalty for the charge of blasphemy online. While the question of the...
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