Justice Isa’s case: making sense of the judgement & its aftermath
The honourable Supreme Court has passed its short-order in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s case. And in the aftermath, a new debate concerning the...
Has superpower China exposed regional power India’s cowardice?
At a height of 14,000 feet in Galwan Valley, two nuclear powers exchanged fisticuffs and threw stones at each other. India lost 20 lives,...
China adamant on teaching India a lesson?
The Indian analysts have been comparing the military build-up in the India-China border in eastern Ladakh to the Doklam standoff in 2017. This was...
In the post pandemic world, will ‘Black Lives Matter’?
Within a very short period, the COVID-19 pandemic has broken up economic, social and also intellectual traditions existing for decades and were thought to...
Amid desperate times for Modi, Pakistan must remain vigilant
In recent months, the going has gotten tough for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was reelected to India’s top office with a handsome mandate,...
How successful was SBP’s rozgar scheme
For private security services Covid-19 pandemic posed multiple problems. The closing down of business and industries meant loss of revenues for them, reducing overheads...
While science consumes, technology produces — a tribute to Engr Masood Hasan
On June 11, Engr Masood Hasan, a leading technologist of the country and the father of chemical engineering (Chem-1) of Pakistan, passed away after...
Indo-China tensions: US interests & regional implications
On June 15, Sino-Indian tensions spiked with the killing of 20 soldiers during a confrontation in the Galwan Valley-- the mountainous region of Ladakh....
How to end prevailing deadlock in Afghanistan
The release of 3,000 Taliban prisoners by President Ashraf Ghani’s administration has generated optimism about the long-delayed intra-Afghan peace talks, with the Taliban announcing...
Covid-19: A multifaceted challenge
In the initial days of the First World War, it was believed that the war was going to be short and decisive. Many prominent...
A country marred by corruption
As a political activist, I could never imagine that one day political resistance would intermingle with corruption. In the Ayub era, the political ‘dark...
From Chiniot to Harvard; the story of a boy from Pakistan
From matriculation in Chiniot and a Bachelors degree in Karachi to Harvard University in USA; my journey has had me attend top institutes in...