Thank you, Shahid Masood! on January 30, 2018Now is the time to state that Shahid Masood can or cannot be talking sense, he is not but a distraction in Zainab murder case. Imran Ali is not a distraction, but he alone is not our killer. The incident has now gone beyond the realm of tragedy. At the start, we had a steady […]
Ardern and Benazir Bhutto on January 23, 2018It is delightful to see New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announce that she is expecting. Smiling, she talked about the “impending arrival”, her husband standing by her. She did not disclose the gender of her baby. She plans to get a six-week maternity leave during which her deputy will look after the state affairs. […]
Trump: what media consumers really want on January 7, 2018The world media had a field day in the wake of President Trump’s now infamous tweet in which he took to task previous American governments for ‘foolishly’ continuing funding Pakistan to enable it to hunt down terrorists in the post-9/11 years. The latter, he contended, had failed to do anything of the sort. As the […]
Bajwa’s ambitions on December 26, 2017The message Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s briefing to the Senate Committee has delivered to the global community is that Pakistan has taken an unconventional turn off the conventional highway of international relations. The fact that his predecessor Raheel Sharif is coming back home from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not indication of […]
Mediatising resilience on December 13, 2017There has been a sharp increase in initiatives to use media to create awareness about human trafficking in countries like Pakistan where potential victims are generated at an industrial scale. Last month, the Swiss Embassy in Islamabad screened a documentary titled ‘Impasse’, based on stories of four women who ended up in sex slavery at […]
This bell cannot be unrung on October 27, 2014Malala Yousafzai is no longer a cult; rather, she has become the canon, the bandwagon, the epoch-making actor and the symbol. There is no stopping her as the National Assembly (NA) has also resolved to “salute” her struggle for girls’ education and the Foreign Office (FO) has declared here the pride of Pakistan. The good […]