Obeying the ConstitutionThis past week has been great for our neighbouring country, India and a terrible one for us. The Indian Supreme Court (ISC) struck down the colonial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code by arguing tha...
Folly, thy name is Diamer-BhashaI noted with some disbelief the Prime Minister's pledge to build Diamer-Bhasha dam amongst others, with donations from overseas Pakistanis. According to the World Commission on dams, on average all d...
Prize-bond draw anomalySir: Not all prize bonds in a series get sold. But, the State Bank includes even the unissued bonds (lying in State Bank vaults and unsold at saving centres or commercial banks) in each draw. As a res...
Health in BalochistanSir: The all important thing a hospital requires is the provision of world class facilities. A look at hospitals in Balochistan shows that there are many doctors who are not performing their duties al...
Religious ExtremismSir: AtifMianis a Pakistani and got his early education here. To get higher education, he moved to USA. In USA, he joined Princeton University where he did MSc in Mathematics and computer science, and...
Sinister moves behind the scenesThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government's 'first 100 days' mantra is proving to be a charade. The Federal Information Minister's assertion that, "The army is fully backing the PTI government......
The significance of September 8, 1982In her several visits to Kashmir in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bilqees Taseer, an astute Kashmir observer, carefully noted that my maternal grandmother, Akbar Jehan Abdullah, was "given a share o...
Pakistan media watchNawaz Sharif determined to overthrow the Imran government; Shahbaz Sharif to remain indifferent Haroon-ur-Rasheed says that he has learned through reliable sources that Nawaz Sharif and his lieutenant...