Discomforting conclusionsGoing by the quick- on- the- toe responses to any mention of the armed forces in the public domain by successive ISPR chiefs since the days of Major General (Retd) Ather Abbas one had expected the cur...
Mr AnthropologyFor far too long, Western anthropology has been seen by its critics as a tool of Western imperialists, a means of understanding how to best exploit "under-developed" societies. On the other hand the...
Effects of smart phones on eyesSir: Medical experts have urged smart phone users to limit excessive usage as this may lead to damage to eyes in the long term because of the many hours spent staring at screens. As much as we depend...
Cities beautificationSir: It is quite good to note that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed the provincial authorities concerned to formulate and present within the next seven days a comprehensive plan to de...
#JusticeforZainabSir: Hearing the news about the recent atrocity in Kasur has left me heartbroken. At the young age of seven, Zainab was brutally abused, killed and thrown into a pile of trash. Her parents, who were i...
Good example by KanyakumariSir: Here comes an interesting story on, 'the practice of sanitation'. Sometime ago, I had been working in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, India. I as an English trainer was with a famous Christi...
Open season on PakistanThe Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan, operationally responsible for gathering, processing, and analysing national security information from around the w...
State, security and institutionsEach year, the number of children in Pakistan who fall victim to crime increases and horrific stories of transgressions leave us perplexed and numb as to why the state is unable to fulfill its respons...
Nowhere to go‘Na jai raftan' (nowhere to go) and 'na pai mandan' (no place to set a foot). This describes the predicament the politicians in Pakistan have brought upon us to bear. To be, or not to be, that is the...