The unplanned cities of Pakistan: A problem without solution

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar | Pakistan is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in South Asia and the share of the urban population has risen...

Rethinking the education paradigm – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | In matters of State and politics, the ‘urgent’ has an uncanny ability to crowd out the ‘important’. Stuck in the urgency of...

Platinum Birthday felicitations Tariq Ali – Saud Bin Ahsen

Saud Bin Ahsen | The sun rises later and later now, and I, who only a month ago could sit with latte every morning watching...

Will Conflict with Iran help bail MBS out of his troubles? – James M Dorsey

James M Dorsey | Embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could prove to be not only a cat with nine lives but also one...

Pakistan needs to welcome Science!

Farah Adeed | Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher, and a prolific writer wrote a very interesting book in 1952, titled The Impact of Science on...

Devolution of Power: Must for Pakistan?

Abdul Rasool Syed | "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and...

A gruesome murder bares world powers’ flawed policies

James M Dorsey | Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder raises fundamental questions that go far beyond Middle Eastern geopolitics. They go to the risks...

Will Imran Khan bring much-promised change – Farid A Malik

Farid A Malik | ‘Old habits die hard’ is an age old saying. Adult changes are almost impossible as it involves a lot of unlearning....

US squeezing Iran: Difficult choices for Pakistan?

Najmuddin A. Shaikh | The EU, France, Germany, China, and Russia; signatories of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and the IAEA, which...

Is Pakistan a free country?

Dawood Ghazanavi | The month of October marks the 17th anniversary of the US-led war in Afghanistan. It is the longest in American history. In...

Don’t be surprised if Saudis get away with murder

Jacob G Hornberger | While many people are decrying the possibility that the Saudi regime orchestrated and carried out the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, they...

Pakistan’s Bureaucracy: A legacy of British colonial era?

Dr. Zafar A. Bokhari | Worldwide bureaucrats are educated and talented people to run respective government departments, not cities, municipalities, and towns. Bureaucracy plays a...
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