Another shot in the arm on August 31, 2016Persuasion has its limits. This was amply demonstrated in the final interview of the former director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Pakistan, Marc-André Franche, who apparently, like many before him, eventually seemed to have lost the optimism that is usually the hallmark of all ‘development’ rhetoric. But unlike his predecessors, he made […]
Broad says Amir will cause problems for England on July 12, 2016LONDON: With Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir set to make a high-profile return to Test cricket at Lord’s on Thursday, England’s pacer Stuart Broad admitted that the 24-year-old has the ability to cause serious damage to the hosts. Amir was one of the hottest properties in cricket in 2010, and is now playing again after serving his […]
Passing the buck of terrorism on July 11, 2016Turkey, Dhaka and Iraq — it doesn’t get any deadlier than that. Then came Saudi Arabia — three explosions in the heartland of Islam on the eve of Eid. It doesn’t get any more demoralising than that. All of a sudden, being a Muslim is not cool anymore. More horridly, it’s not even safe to […]
At war with ourselves on March 9, 2016In the aftermath of World War II, the global political and economic landscape turned on its head. Empires disintegrated, millions of people perished and cities were left annihilated. At the end of it, both, victors and losers, were smarting from the ravages and miseries inflicted by the war. With a demoralised public and a large […]
Chicago summit I on June 3, 2012Almost the most revealing news photograph at the Chicago Summit caught President Barack Obama with two of his distinguished guests, President Abdul Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, engaged preferentially with the former. It was a rare sight of the three presidents getting together, even if informally, on the margins […]
Population and education standard on June 2, 2012 Sir: Pakistan is a country that is counted among the 10 countries having the largest population. However, it is not something to be proud of because as population keeps increasing, so does our illiteracy rate. The government of Pakistan cuts the budget of education and spends it on defence and buying luxuries for officials […]