Climate change – the biggest threat to Pakistan’s economy on August 28, 2022Greenhouse gases (GHG) are pollutants, produced by human activities, which cause an increase in surface temperature and have a serious impact on the climate. Climate change impacts production factors, causing a decrease in marginal productivity of capital and total aggregate output; this strongly affects long-run equilibrium growth. Despite having a global impact in general, climate […]
Free the minorities on September 13, 2018A few years ago, during an interview with a foreign journalist, I was asked what I thought of the claim often made by some Pakistanis that the nation was a ‘heaven for minorities’. At the time, the country was in the midst of a highly destructive terrorist insurgency and people were dying almost every day. […]
The Faizabad surrender on December 1, 2017The idea the dharna in Faizabad is over is a dangerous lie; and if we Pakistanis are to survive, this is something we will have to recognise. To do otherwise would to be to dance in the gallows with our executioner. Perhaps the purpose of this entire charade has been to force us to question […]
Congratulations team India! on April 4, 2011Politics and sport have an unerring tendency to collide with each other. Who can forget the 1980 ‘miracle on ice’ when an underdog United States hockey team beat the mighty Soviet Union on their way to the Olympic gold medal. The victory became a symbol of American resolve in the face of growing US-Soviet tensions […]
Safeguarding citizens freedoms on March 3, 2011As Wednesday’s assassination of the Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, has shown — years of mixing politics with religion has created a dangerous cocktail of hatred and bigotry in Pakistan. The political and judicial institutions of the country have appeased the prejudices of Islamic fundamentalists for so long that regardless of which way the pendulum […]
An Indonesian massacre on February 15, 2011In his novel, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad paints a furious picture of a humanity that cannot escape the inherent evil that resides within the deepest recesses of every individual. The innate wickedness of mankind, he suggests, is masked and curtailed only by the restraints of civilisation. His colonial Africa is described as “one of […]