Sohni Dharti Allah RakhayLeaders make history and history makes nations. I consider living to see Pakistan’s 71-year Jashne Azadi a special gift of God. On top of this, a former colleague from the Pakistan High Commission — a...
Making the Naya PakistanNow that Naya Pakistan is nigh, many people are wondering about its contours. Will the old Pakistan completely disappear? Will the Naya Pakistan engulf old Pakistan? Or will it be created somewhere ne...
End of vulturesIt was an editorial in your esteemed daily that caught my eye the other day. Published on August 10, 2018, it was called ‘learning to love vultures’ and it first introduced me to the possibility that...
Our youthSir: According to a report published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Pakistan has the largest number, or highest percentage of youth, in the world. The report states that 64 percent...
Opposition and Imran KhanSir: In the 2018 elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf came to power and bagged the majority of seats in the centre, as well as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and is also expected to form a government in Punjab....
Education in SindhSir: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. These words were spoken by the iconic South African leader, Nelson Mandela. In this globalized world, in fact, educa...
Exploring the worldIt is quite interesting and encouraging to see NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] getting engaged on a mission to the sun through the parker solar Probe spacecraft. This is a commend...
How much can a country endure?To paraphrase Karl Marx: a spectre is haunting America. It is not communism. Nor is it democratic socialism. Instead it is a failed and failing government. And this failure is the fault of ‘we the peo...
Peace in the Subcontinent is our only optionMy book Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister...
The future of the Indo-Pak rivalry“Oh, you are from Islamabad. I heard it’s beautiful”, chuckled the immigration officer. Bubbling with excitement, he expressed a desire to visit Pakistan one day. I was amongst the few passengers from...