Violence against women: Who is responsible?

In a country where women constitute an estimated 50% of the population, and the society is rocked by ever increasing incidents of violence against...

Islam in the West: Freedom to express or oppress?

Atheism has been on the rise during the recent years, mostly in the West, where a big chunk of the people, especially youngsters, prefer...

Nuclear power: clean, cheap, and sustainable source of energy for Pakistan

The great power of the atom is not limited to warfare. The nuclear technology can supply a clean, cheap, and sustainable source of energy...

Motivational speakers, the new form of “Banarasi Thugs”

“You can have anything you want in life” and “You were born to win” are the grand statements made by motivational speakers. Imagine the...

The Great Transformation: How is RSS transforming India into a fascist regime?

Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister, like so many other Bharatiya Janata Party stalwarts, makes no bones about having been a member of the...

Moving towards multipolarity: End of a unipolar world

“Make America great again” - a slogan that formed the nucleus of Trump’s electoral campaign vividly suggests that America is no more a great...

Trump or Biden – Who is best for Pakistan?

President Trump foretold that the pandemic was nearing its end. Yet, he and his Mrs are now perhaps USA’s most prominent coronavirus patients. Just...

Op-ed: Fake news, economic disappointment drive people towards ‘saviors’

“The thing that strikes me more and more…is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time…I mean that almost nobody seems...

Op-ed: PML-N, PPP stalling accountability process by manipulating system

The accountability process is not moving mainly because of the planned delays by the accused. The PML(N) and PPP (Zardari) policy of stalling the...

Op-ed: Abdullah Abdullah is more a ‘son of the soil’ than US-bound Ghani

The total military expenditure in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 is $822bn, this includes the US Department of Defense, State Department, USAID...

Babri Mosque case: Indian courts are no longer immune to Hindutva frenzy

All the 32 accused, including LK Advani, in the Babri Mosque demolition case have been acquitted by the special CBI court in Lucknow on...

Op-ed: The bureaucracy should be declared sick and then appropriately treated

Like most state institutions, the bureaucracy should also be declared sick and then appropriately treated. I was motivated to write on this subject after...
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