Andleeb Abbas

Four young, barely teenage boys decide that life is not worth living and commit suicide in a matter of a few days; this is tragic, to say the least. The trickle down effect of the misery the country is going through is frightening. We have been hearing about married men with families committing suicide due […]

Last year, it was a spring of change in the Middle East and later, we saw it enter Asia; now Europe is experiencing this restive movement. All across the world, people are increasingly intolerant of leaders unwilling to understand the pulse of the public. The Middle East uprising was heralded as the reversal of the […]

Statistics can be a legal way of lying. A statement backed by figures, no matter how fictitious, has more weight than sweeping phraseology. This seems to be the thought process of those working with government on the numbers business. With so much fake work going on in every sphere of politics, expecting the finance department […]

It is almost a political blasphemy. To compare names like Mandela and Gandhi to our prime minister (PM) is comically tragic. We all owe an apology to these great men who stood for principle as defined by accepted laws, and not by their own completely unjustified interpretation of a verdict of a court. As the […]

Dying in the air has always had more grief attached to it than dying on the ground. The numbers of people dying in various forms of tragedy are so many that they rarely make big news. Yet when an air crash happens, it still manages to shock a nation used to hundreds of deaths frequently. […]

The prime motivators for enhancing results is rewarding success and penalising failure. These are natural laws and universally proven facts. All research has shown that accountability for results is dependent on the proper following of these laws. Western societies over a period of time have proved that in state or corporate affairs, wherever a culture […]

The energy conference held to solve energy problems was an echo of all the problem-solving sessions the government held in its miserable four years in power. It was a conference sans substance, it was a conference sans conviction and it was a conference sans solution. Whether it is a seminar, convention, or conference, the format, […]

To live but not to let live is the motto of those who have power over those who are powerless. As the weather heats up, the issues in temporary recession rear their ugly heads with a lethal effect on the public. Load shedding, dengue, target killings, spiralling inflation — all add misery to the already […]

Every book on management, philosophy and politics is brimming with research on change, its requirements, its benefits, yet, perpetuating the status quo remains the most sought after option for humans at all levels. While we preach change to everybody and promote its advantages, we find practicing it ourselves almost impossible. Human behaviour is the most […]

Politics is dirty, and the dirtiest wins. That is how the new definition of this field of human occupation seems as we look around and see what all is being said and done under the guise of being politically correct. To be in the public eye, politicians must either do dramatics of being the wronged […]