Karachi water crisisSir: I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to the importance of the availability of clean, drinking water for the functionality of a city. For the past few years, both poor a...
World Mountain daySir: Every year on 11 December Mountain day is observed across the world. This day is observed to pull attention to the significant roles that mountainous areas play in the water and food supply and t...
Sindh education issuesSir: The children of Sindh are facing many problems when it comes to getting education because of the poor education system in the province. In Sindh out of 12 million children, 6.7 million are out of...
Islam in the modern ageHis Highness Aga Khan-IV, the hereditary imam of the Ismaili Aga Khani community, is on a visit to Pakistan. To my mind he represents the true spirit of Islam: progress, humanity, education, and econo...
Intervention against gender inequality neededSelective amnesia and apathy keeps the development business alive. Bonded labourers, maids, street children, transgenders, disabled, homeless, old, displaced and/or trafficked, people etc. remain most...
Trump’s dangerous move — IIPalestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem are essentially stateless and stuck in legal limbo. They are not citizens of Israel, but nor are they citizens of Jordan or the Palestine Authority. Israeli regime...
Pakistan’s foreign policy orientation — IIPakistan remains unable to adjust itself to post-Cold War (1947-1991) realities. One of the impediments is the Cold War machinery laden with Cold War terminologies, thoughts and tactics in both diplom...
The destructive tolerance for bigotryThe words in the land of the pure are spoken yet the ears have not gone dumb. The flabbergasted Zarathustra held hostage to silence kept wondering about the fate of sanity while the clergy jigged, lis...
Embracing the Chinese economic revolutionThe late veteran French general and statesman, Charles de Gaulle, once made the poignant observation that “a country cannot change its geography but it can change its geopolitics”. It almost appears t...