The crisis of higher educationIt has been four decades now since the ban on students unions, and we’re in the second decade of the full-blown privatisation of the higher education sector. It has been a downhill journey ever since....
#MeTooWho would have thought that one of India’s most prominent journalists and now union minister, M J Akbar, would be brought down by a group of women? In the last two weeks, as many as 20 women have accu...
Hybrid warfare challenges for PakistanDuring their meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt in 2009, then PM Yousuf Raza Gilani handed over a dossier of RAW’s involvement in terrorist activities to his counterpart, PM Manmohan Singh. The dossi...
Incompetence, vested interests vs privatisationThe then finance minister Ishaq Dar had asked for “workable proposals” to salvage the Pakistan Steels Mills. When stakeholders came up with a rescue plan, Dar never implemented it. His reluctance cost...