Syed Bakhtiyar Kazmi

Reinventing the wheel is always a disastrous business proposition; there is perhaps more money in a copycat strategy compared to first mover advantage. To venture a guess, the guy who invented the wheel probably was labelled a blooming idiot by other cavemen. Even in recent times examples abound of first mover disadvantage. The internet may […]

MDGs is an acronym for millennium development goals, which in turn as elucidated by Wikipedia, are the eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the UN in 2000, following the adoption of the UN Millennium Declaration. Pakistan was one of the 189 countries that averred to achieve the eight goals […]

Last week’s article showcased the success of recent actions by the state in transmuting corruption from the megalomania of the corrupt to the derision of the masses. Undoubtedly, rumours about the aggrandisement of this noble operation beyond its current geographic limits are welcomed and cheered on by all and sundry, except obviously by those within […]

The contrast between the invidious talk shows on the idiot box at night and the mundane morning shows coupled with drab breaking news in the wee hours of the morning strengthens the lack of confidence in the hype created by the media over recent developments, and reinforces the view that, at the end of the […]

It is fascinating to observe certain analysts passionately offering what can only be termed as choleric advice on handling the recent escalation of hostilities between Pakistan and its neighbour on the eastern border, as the latter continues to flex its muscles, unable to mask its atavistic hegemonic designs in the region anymore. Just a few […]

When will the liberals ever understand that all that palaver about equality is hogwash? Then again, all that noise about equality is in itself an anomaly; such gaffes are not concomitant with intelligent liberals. The more likely scenario is that all this tomfoolery over equality is a facade maintained to drive maximum Schadenfreude while the […]

The idea for the nothing discourse has its origin in a writer’s block. Pushed by the editor during the holy month of Ramazan to come up with a contribution, all efforts to think or write were met with paralysis. Realistically, thinking during a 16-hour fast or after a scrumptious Iftar is a feat beyond human […]

The immediate reaction that this is an attempt to jump on the bandwagon of remakes of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is quite justifiable. However, while the title and the moral are borrowed, this is definitely not a fairytale. The Brothers Grimm were astonishingly perceptive and talented to have exemplified mankind’s primary flaw in […]

The plan was to begin this article with a posthumous apology to Sun Tzu for modifying the title of his masterpiece The Art of War, until the internet revealed that this title is fairly common and has already been used for a book, for lectures and there is even an organisation with this name. The […]

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment — Robert A. Lovett.What absolutely boggles the mind is that in spite of a plethora of data, ranging from history’s greatest blunders to its tiniest goof ups, judgments continue to tilt towards the atrocious. Guttenberg’s press may have […]