Political watershed: US signature strikes on December 29, 2013US drones have reached a peak of deep unpopularity in Pakistan and the international community. Despite the partisan political nature of Pakistan, all political parties agree on only the issue of drones and have unanimously passed two resolutions in the National Assembly condemning the drone strikes and demanding their end. The drones have triggered so […]
A picture of educational stagnation on December 22, 2013The qualification of just 2.9 percent candidates in the written portion of the top bureaucracy CSS exam paints a dismal picture of rapidly falling standards of education in Pakistan. However, such poor performance of the candidates was one day likely in view of the orphaned state of education in the country. The alarms of educational […]
The absurdity of privatising state-owned enterprises on December 15, 2013The recent declaration by the PML-N central government to privatise a large number of state-owned enterprises has triggered a heated debate in the form of a blame game in the social, print and electronic media. The co-Chairperson of the main opposition party, the PPP, criticising the decision, has said, “This is not privatisation, this is […]
Cultural wars on January 5, 2013Cultures dominate religion and politics around the world. A country has many cultures, which, from time to time, usher in a cultural war within the same country and sometimes push two countries into a conflict. A cultural war is a clash of ideas about what one believes to be true, and where others have different […]