Hard talkAll eyes were on Asad Umar this week as he spoke to BBC HARDtalk. This was an important interview. Not least because, as Finance Minister, Mr Umar holds the second most important cabinet position afte...
Positive U-turn on PACThe PTI has done the needful. In conceding the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to Shehbaz Sharif, the government can now boast of a positive U-turn; albeit one that took some 123 d...
Ibn Khaldun and Max Weber Part IThe ideas of Weber, a German sociologist living in the university towns of Bismarckian Germany, and Ibn Khaldun, a sociologist of tribal societies born almost half a millennium earlier on the edge of...
AIDS and PakistanThis month began by marking World AIDS Day. First December: an international day dedicated to raising awareness about the lethal condition in the hope of eradicating it. As per custom President Arif A...