Opinion: Religious clerics will make COVID-19 worse in Pakistan?
Pakistan, like much of the world, is in the midst of a covid-19 pandemic. Luckily, compared to global numbers and averages, it is doing...
Covid-19 through Behavioral Economist’s Eyes: Pakistan needs extraordinary steps
Infectious diseases like Black Death, Plague, Cholera, Spanish Flu and SARS have shaped history and economies. The new coronavirus (Covid-19) is a threat to...
7.8 billion people are falling in Corona anxiety: Here’s how you can cope it
As news and discussions on Corona virus dominate our screens, on TV, newspapers and e-papers and even social media, we all feel a sense...
Can Covid-19 bring US and Iran closer?
The ongoing Covid-19 has exposed not only public health facilities in many countries, but also revealed complex manifestations of international politics. For the last three...
Coronavirus in Pakistan: Will ignorance & illiteracy let us fight it?
Visited mosque on the last Friday to attend the Friday prayer. During the sermon, Imam was saying: "Those don't belong to us who are...
Lockdown will shake Indian economy to its foundations
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the nation yesterday announcing “total lockdown” in the country, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro also took to...
Can India and Pakistan fight “Corona War” together?
South Asia is poised to be pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic given its largely dilapidated health infrastructure and widespread abject poverty, which isn't helped...
Iran is dying under US sanctions and China virus
Saadi Shirazi, one of the prominent Iranian poets of the medieval period, once wrote, “Extending a hand in the hour of need is the...
Coronavirus: Will the real world please stand up for refugees?
Indiscriminate in targeting its victims, the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) casts a very different light on the need to enforce international law governing wars as...
Coronavirus Pandemic: This is why prevention is better than Cure
Doesn’t it feel like a horror movie? What made me feel like I was in one of the characters when my best friend's wedding...
Coronavirus origin: The politics which will allow more viruses to spread
The outbreak of coronavirus is already being viewed globally through partisan lens of right-wing nationalism, making bids to curb the virus difficult. China finds...
SBP can save economy by slashing the interest rates but it doesn’t care!
Look at the worldwide interest rates. We are in the second-largest bracket of high-interest rates, 149th out of 166 countries, double the interest rate...