Man who is ready to put everything at stake on January 14, 2023In an article in a daily newspaper, a journalist claimed that Imran Khan revealed to him that during his visit to Riyadh, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman shared his desire to attack Iran and requested Pakistan’s support for it. Confused and bewildered, I couldn’t believe myself reading these lines in a daily newspaper. This […]
Bureaucratisation of democracy on February 15, 2020When Indian politician and founder-patron of the Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav took over as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he sent for the provincial agriculture secretary and candidly told him: “I am not as educated as you are, but I have some [leadership] qualities, which you do not possess.” He then gave another […]
Where did peacocks use to hop, why deaths dance today? on January 25, 2020At the point when hardships speak volume about the hard-hit area in Pakistan, it isn’t difficult to comprehend the reasons for the top trend of self-executing there. The task of taking one’s life is considered to be the most difficult job but the repeated incidents in the Tharparkar area are the other way around. The […]
Paradigm shift in post-Brexit aid policy on December 29, 2019Britain’s new premier Boris Johnson’s pledge to merge Department for International Development (DfID) into foreign office may, inversely, affect aid programs in many countries including Pakistan.The development giant’s educational and other social sector funding would, after Brexit, be linked to achieving UK’s foreign policy objectives as a tool to strengthen the former colonial king’s overseas […]
The enemy within on December 27, 2019The international media portrays the troika of North Korea, Iran and China as enemies of the USA but it never divulges that American armed forces’ blood keeps the machines of US military-industrial complex running. The sole superpower is, covertly, controlled by its mighty war industry that, frequently, plunges it into new conflicts to continue arms’ […]
Who will bell the cat? on December 24, 2019In his famous article on workers’ strike, a former Indian justice Pana Chand Jain quoted a French philosopher Charles Fourier who gave the theory of “the right to work.” Fourier had also declared that “politics extol the rights of men and do not guarantee the prime and only useful right, the right to work.” Meanwhile, […]
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy on November 28, 2019Maverick PPP leader and former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto introduced populist politics during the 60s and 70s. Being a man of many talents and abilities, he was also an avid reader of choicest books and his library at 70-Clifton in Karachi was declared as one of the best in Asia. ZA Bhutto dexterously used […]