A taxing budget?This is supposed to be a people-friendly budget. And some of it does look good; at least on paper. The newly and rather swiftly appointed Finance minister announced relief measures for middle- and up...
Surveillance of activistsHere in Pakistan, journalists and civil society activists do not need to imagine themselves on the wrong side of a faded and frayed Iron Curtain to understand that Big Brother is watching. This is som...
Catalonia and democracyCatalonia may or may not be having a Nawaz Sharif moment. The autonomous region in the north-east of Spain has ended the political stalemate that endured for the last seven months. For, after five fai...
Nawaz, the ‘traitor’Some nations produce great thinkers, others great scientists, even others great quantities of food grains. But we as a nation have specialised in producing traitors in great numbers. It has become a f...
The case of the ‘missing republic’Though it is not a phenomenon exclusive to Pakistan, people in this country have been suffering because of the ‘enforced disappearances’ of activists and dissidents for at least three decades. There h...