Indifference to the ordinary on April 21, 2020Social injustice and unequal distribution of wealth has long been associated with the third world countries but the covidised situation has reaffirmed the reality that deprivation, inequality and indignities faced by the ordinary citizens as well as the working class people pervade the global political spectrum. Working class lubricates the engine of both industry and […]
Black coats fascism on December 24, 2019Both Advisor to the PM on Information and Broadcasting, Firdous Ashiq Awan and Punjab Information Minister, Fayazul Hassan Chauhan, have termed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) attack a political conspiracy, which was engineered by ranks of lawyers loyalist to PML-N and other opposition parties. It is nothing but political immaturity and an attempt to […]
Pakistan needs a new social contract (Part-II) on December 5, 2019Some political pundits have called the latest development as the “Shahbaz Sharif doctrine” which is soft to the establishment getting relief and is waiting patiently for a political role till the complete deterioration of socio-politico-economic conditions leaving the PTI government paralyzed. Federal Interior Minister Ijaz Shah is on the record having said that if Maryum […]
Pakistan needs a new social contract on December 2, 2019The prevailing system in the country is very much discriminatory. It is super active against the weak, and unfortunately, weak against the powerful. The system is extraordinarily lenient to the powerful political clan of Punjab. When it is a matter of the Sharifs of Lahore, the rule of law is a piece of paper, which […]
Education doesn’t thrive when children live in fear (Part-II) on October 17, 2019The elephant in the room is the fast shrinking role of a teacher as a role model and an inspirational character, and a school as a place for cultivating three Cs on which the edifice of modern education stands on: confidence, character and competence building. A classroom is a diaspora of smart, slow and unwilling […]
Education doesn’t thrive when children live in fear on October 11, 2019According to the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, around 35,000 high school students in Pakistan drop out of primary and high school education system annually due to corporal punishment The modern research has proved that corporal punishment is detrimental to a child’s physical dignity, mental health and academic engagement. Yet […]
Iran — the victim of economic terrorism on October 5, 2019The US poses as a democratic country, but the policies it has pursued speak otherwise. The White House has been consistently violating international laws and democratic principles by imposing economic sanctions–economic terrorism– to materialise its desire for dominance. Its ugly game of a regime change, through economic sanctions, has caused humanitarian crises in various countries. […]
Macron’s crises in France is canary in the European elites’ coalmine on February 11, 2019Niccolo’ Machiavelli’s The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course he should take when ruling a country . Despite the widely -used phrase ‘Machiavellian ‘, with all of its negative connotations, his elaborative treatise remains a classic text. According to Machiavelli, “the Prince -“the ruler” ought to have an […]
France crises: It is time to listen to the deprived majority on December 7, 2018Politicians full of hot air, elite class’s indifference to the common class and the unequal distribution of wealth have long been associated with third world countries. However, the troubles faced by the workforce in developed countries like France and more than 500,000 workers in, who have been swept into working poverty over the last five […]
Time to correct the course, Mr Prime Minister on November 30, 2018According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity”. Compromising on core values, democratic norms and integrity are Machiavellian traits to be used as part of the political game in the name of strategy or flexibility. The compromising characters are sure to receive both embarrassment and opprobrium. The PM has justifiably […]