Why does India intervene in its neighbours’ affairs?After World War II, all decolonised countries faced many problems in their early years. Whether it was based on the differences between their citizens, or weak political systems, it led to a struggle...
United we stand, divided we fallRecently I happened to recall a story from the famous Aesop's Fables called The bulls and the lion. The story is about a lion which has been watching three bulls feeding in an open field. He tried att...
President ParadoxA sophisticated mind is one that is able to deal with several paradoxes at a time. In a sense, Donald Trump can rightly be called the ‘President Paradox’ because of the many paradoxes he has set in mo...
Summer loadsheddingSir: Last year, the PML-N government declared that it had ended Pakistan’s loadshedding problem. Some rejoiced, while others remained skeptical. The latter argued that while the PML-N government had a...
English news channelsSir: The English language is viewed as a universal dialect and the dialect of science and innovation. It is amongst the most widely used languages in the world, which makes it the perfect medium for c...
The perfect timingSir: A movie made at the perfect time can help bring attention to a topic that previously nobody would have cared about. We are experiencing something similar in Pakistan today, but instead of a movie...
The killing of Shujaat BukhariSir: Recently, Shujaat Bukhari, a leading journalist and editor of the English-language daily newspaper ‘Rising Kashmir’, was shot dead by three unidentified gunmen on a motorbike. This incident took...
FIFA World CupSir: Once again, the eyes of the world tuned in to watch the latest edition of the FIFA World Cup, held in Russia this year. It is truly the biggest sporting spectacle in the world and the people of P...
Dividing familiesSir: We have all been shocked by the actions American governments have taken over the years. At the end of World War II they dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. D...