Vaqar Ahmed

The incompetent manner in which the design and construction of the Nandipur power plant was carried out is making headlines. The power plant is way over budget and is performing way under the capacity it was designed for. The project is just another example of how poorly the engineering industry in Pakistan is performing. The […]

The recent leaking of the names of the men registered with Ashley Madison, a dating site for the married, has hit the headlines. One important statistic from the data is that there are far more men registered on the site than women. This data has given further credence to the generally held belief that men […]

The eLearning website was launched in January 2014 by the government of Punjab with great fanfare. Full page advertisements appeared in major newspapers, informing the public about a revolutionary educational initiative of the government of Punjab. The advertising claimed that Punjab had made a giant leap in disseminating education through the internet. Under the Media […]

Sindh, by all evidence, is the worst managed and most corrupt province in the country. The manner in which the city of Karachi is being used and abused by extortionists, the land mafia and target killers is bringing the city down to its knees. There is no rule of law and criminals are running amok […]

“Nothing to be done!” utters Samuel Beckett’s character Estragon in desperation in the play Waiting for Godot. Estragon is trying to remove his boot and, failing repeatedly, gives up exhausted. The despair in Beckett’s play contrasts starkly with the leader of the Russian revolution Vladimir Lenin’s book What Is To Be Done? This outlines a […]

There is immense outrage in the world these days against the downing of a passenger plane in Ukraine and the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza. Everyone is aghast and asking, “How can humans be so cruel that they can kill so many innocent people: babies, children, the young and old alike?” To […]

The First World War (1914-1918) sounded the death knell for Muslim dominance in the world and the process of a complete European domination of whatever was left of the great Muslim empire was completed. The empire was reduced to a series of colonies ruled by the Europeans. The Muslim world’s response to their rapid economic, […]

From the time soldiers of the powerful Muslim Ottoman Empire were knocking at the gates of Vienna in the 16th century, attempting to conquer this last bastion of resistance in Europe, to the wretched state the Muslims find themselves in just 400 years later, there is a story of their loss, anger and bewilderment that […]

The League went into the elections with a clear message to the Muslim voters: “Islam is in danger if you do not have Pakistan. If you want Pakistan, vote for the Muslim League.” What Pakistan meant in terms of physical boundaries and the form of government was left vague and open-ended. This broad vision was […]