How is FBR hurting Pakistan economy?

Let us browse two contrasting stories; Iran – currently under crippling US sanctions – is going out of way to woo Afghan government and...

Hoarding: Let’s be honest about this

In May 2019 four people in Muzaffargarh were arrested for hoarding sugar and thus contributing to an artificial crisis; in one go-down had stocked...

Politicians could not unite against COVID-19

The coronavirus epidemic, even in its nascent stages, has been recognised as the gravest public policy challenge of the post-modern era. Not since the...

Covid-19 Exposing and Exploiting Inequality

Contrary to popular belief that Covid-19 affects everyone without discriminating on the lines of religion, ethnicity, nationality and socioeconomic class, I believe that the...

Opinion: World remains divided because of our inherited belief systems!

Most people, without batting an eye, proudly follow their unique cultural rituals, norms and traditions, which, to say the least, are nothing more than...

Book Review: Pakistan at Seventy

The Covid-19 pandemic has only added to the myriad challenges Pakistan faces. While we are holed up in our homes trying to stay safe...

Post-corona world and Pakistan

Just in case one didn’t agree with this prognosis that the world was hopelessly out of plumb; the corona crisis might help take another...

Will US dump India over its atrocious treatment of minorities?

There's been a lot of speculation that the US might be preparing to dump India over its atrocious treatment of minorities after the official...

Covid-19 breeds cybercrimes

As the lockdown and social distancing continues with Covid-19 still posing a threat to everyone around the world, people are forced to remain within...

Why US plans to blacklist India?

India is the world’s biggest democracy. It is wedded to secularism. Article 25-A of India’s Constitution provides for religious freedom. Yet, a US commission...

Opinion: Prime Minister Khan’s unfulfilled promises

In his widely acclaimed inaugural address to the nation as Prime Minister, Imran Khan made some promises: the conversion of the Prime Minister House...

Had world followed Islam, there’d have been no Coronaviruses

If prevention against infections in general and viral infections in particular has to be successfully achieved, ban on pork eating and pig farming, domestication...