Webinar Josh Malihabadi’s Marsiya: Hussain Aur Inqilab moves listeners on September 9, 2021There is no denying that George W Bush had a great sense of humour. When awarding the then little known Dr Anthony Fauci with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on HIV/AIDS in 2008, he remarked that Dr Fauci possessed “precision of thought and economy of expression” and that was exactly why he […]
PTI’s biggest challenge: conserving the environment on August 28, 2018The United Nations Campus at Bonn saw international leaders and activists congregate for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP23. Representing Pakistan was the ruling Muslim League N’s favourite anti opposition vitriol machine and Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan. A lawyer by training, Senator Khan had seemingly no credentials to […]
China, Pakistan and the anti-India lot on February 20, 2018It was former Indiana Senator and President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats who ruffled a few feathers in Islamabad as well as Beijing with his statements in front of the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Coats opined that the emerging China-Pakistan Economic Corridor would offer additional targets for militants to pounce on. It is […]
The significance of the PSL on February 13, 2018Enamoured by the massive profits raked in by American sports leagues, it was Delhi-born entrepreneur Lalit Modi who first saw the enormous potential for an English-football style cricket league for the subcontinent. After years of untiring hard work, Modi’s brainchild came to be known as the razzmatazz of the Indian Premier League; a lethal concoction […]
Messiah complex on February 6, 2018For much of its short yet turbulent history, Pakistan has yearned for saviours. It would go looking for messiahs who would swoop in and save the day, a day that had been ruined by the inefficacy of the executive branch, its inherent corruption and mismanagement of institutions. Afflicted with a saviour complex, more often than […]
Our coal-powered courtship with China on August 18, 2017This July saw Lahore covered with more pictures than usual of the ruling leadership photo shopped into even more gaudy posters across the city. This time they were patting themselves on the back over the inauguration of the Sahiwal Coal Power Plant’s second unit, the posters boasting about how this falls under the China Pakistan […]
Of mental health and the victim card on August 12, 2017On the October 21 2016, a three-member bench of the apex court, headed by then Chief Justice Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali ruled that schizophrenia was not a mental illness which would disqualify one from being sent to the gallows. This was ostensibly done to ensure that certified schizophrenic Imdad Ali would be hanged for his […]