Four years onToday serves as a brutal reminder of Pakistan’s own 9/11 moment. December 16 not only reminds us of the ongoing battle to save Pakistan — it also underscores how unsafe our children and future generat...
Kosovo’s armyOver the weekend, Kosovo’s Parliament passed three laws to transform its national security force into a regular army; over the next decade. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj hailed the move by noting: “...
Rethinking government adsThe Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) on Friday took up a suo motu case on official government advertisements. In the dock are three provincial set-ups: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh and the Punjab for...
Frozen in timeMuch has been written and said about the sagacity of accepting changes that keep occurring within our lives as well as around us. If, however, one tries to confront these changes by the measure of bru...
Ibn Khaldun and Max Weber — IIAs we know, these fundamental assumptions of Weberian modernity are being challenged today as events unfold on the world stage. Take China and India, both once dominated by Europeans. Both have surged...