Decade long suffering of Pakistan: Will new start be any different?

Opinion| The New Year, from an astronomical perspective, is a logical fallacy. For all intents and purposes, it is just one random point in space...

Afghan Battle: The US losing lives but for what?

If the latest U.S. soldier just killed in Afghanistan, as yet unidentified, was married, I can’t help but wonder what U.S. officials are going...

‘Sham marriages’: Europe’s strict laws destroying ‘Genuine’ families

Apostolos Andrikopoulos | Why do you want to marry a Nigerian?”, a visa officer at a European embassy in Nigeria asked Helen while her partner...

Handling school education and economy: Lessons from Finland – II

Opinion | Here, to understand the role of school and its link with social progress, one is reminded of the words of the great American...

Has democracy died in India?

Opinion | Plato once said, “Your Silence Gives Consent.” An intellectual 2400 years ago knew this but Indians have only come to realise it today....

Historic Turk-Soviet conflict in Eastern Mediterranean: Libya pays price

Opinion | Libya’s call seeking military assistance from Turkey and the latter’s prompt announcement on Thursday of its readiness to meet the request as early as next...

Handling school education and economy: Lessons from Finland – I

Opinion | At the time of the fall of the USSR or Soviet Union, Finland was struggling with its deep economic growth issues, but in...

US Military education in Pakistan: A strategic asset

Opinion | With increasing strategic competition among the world’s most powerful states, both global and regional powers have been realigning their foreign and strategic policies....

Bhutto & Nawaz: A Barrister from London & Pehalwan from Bholu ka Akhara

Opinion | Bhutto versus Sharif The 1965 war proved to be disastrous for Viceroy-III of Pakistan (Ghulam Muhammad Viceroy-I, Iskander Mirza Viceroy-II). Ayub Khan’s dashing foreign...

Forget economy, India under Modi is home to contentious identity politics

Opinion | India has always enjoyed the status of the world’s largest democracy, it was the country which laid its foundation on secular basis and...

India’s draconian Citizenship Law: Sinister move to create Hindu Rashtraya

Opinion | West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and some other states in India’s North East were a simmering cauldron against a compilation of a so-called National...

Right to Food – A right being relentlessly abused

Opinion | The increasing use of the judicial procedure for public interest litigation (PIL), in the recent past, has secured the rights of disadvantaged classes...
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