By-electionsThe results of Pakistan’s by-elections are in. And halfway into its 100-day programme, the ruling PTI may have suffered an unexpected jolt. For while the party just about managed to hang on to its sli...
Merkel and the Bavarian pollsThe Bavarian state elections had been touted as a litmus test of sorts for the grand coalition in Berlin. Yet the preliminary results of Sunday’s polls paint a grim picture for German Chancellor Angel...
NAB’s misstepA black day was observed this week across all public-sector universities. The Federation of All Pakistan Academic Staff Association (FAPUSA) announced the move to show solidarity with those professors...
No pit is deep enoughWhen despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on...
To IMF and beyondThe World War II changed the global economic-political order. The war saw two powerful alliances fight each other for economic dominance and political influence. It resulted in nearly all countries si...