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It has been five months since the government of India slammed Kashmir and more than eight million of its residents into a lockdown, isolated from most of the world and…
This article will be published as those responsible for making policies concerning global warming gather for their annual session over how to avert a climate catastrophe. This time the meeting…
My recent articles on Kashmir have evoked a wide range of responses that keep trickling into my mailbox. The majority seems to be in agreement with my alarm at the…
For the last two or three months the country has been in the grip of commotion. On the one hand, we had the news of the martyrdom of Pakistanis due…
What so-called democracy in the world invades a disputed territory that has enjoyed autonomy for decades with tens of thousands of heavily armed troops, arrests local leaders, enforces a complete…
The changing climate pattern around the globe poses a formidable threat to dwellers of the earth and though there is a growing consciousness about this potential weapon of mass destruction,…
Building strong ties with the Muslim World has been the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy, particularly with the countries in the Middle East and Gulf region. Qatar is one of…
The government appears to have developed second thoughts about taking action against those senior Wapda officials who, as per the inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister Imran Khan, were responsible for…
Pakistan has four neighbours — Afghanistan, China, India and Iran. Following the country’s borderline, this way of looking at Pakistan’s immediate neighbourhood leaves a gap: the Line of Control, or…
There are billions of people on earth connected through a network of humanity, compassion and care. Dormant but thankfully much less visible are the base instincts of violence and the…
I was in Karachi recently. It is always very pleasant for me to be there as it is my city. My mother, four brothers, one sister, two sisters-in-law, one niece…
The question posed above is about climate change; the age of climate panic is here wrote The New York Times in a special report on the subject of what mankind…
Miracles can happen – and that too in various forms. Sometimes they occur without warning while on other occasions we have to wait and pray for them for a long…
At Kahuta, we were not only a team of colleagues, but all part of one family. We were all working towards one goal: to make nuclear weapons (and later, a…
New Year is upon us. 2018 had been a tumultuous year for Pakistan. It was like a live volcano continuously rumbling with potentially destructive eruptions, everyone was on its wit’s…
Pakistan’s environmental problem has many dimensions. All of them need to be the focus of public policy. The government has to move on several fronts at the same time. Not…
Energy is considered to be life line of any economy and most vital instrument of socioeconomic development of a country. Energy is essential in running machinery in factories and industrial…
This is a brilliantly mischievous story with which many of us may be familiar, yet at the pain of repetition it is worth revisiting as it has a powerful lesson…
In Pakistan studies, the role of migration in development has been largely ignored. That is surprising since in many respects the country’s experience in this area is unique in the…
In the madness of meeting timelines, project goals and catching up with loads of office work ,one tends to forget the value of ‘strategic time out’ even if it is…
Amidst the chaos of managing busy schedules for meetings, project goals, and deadlines, one tends to underestimate the value of ‘strategic time out’, even if it is only for few…
Last week the ministry of religious affairs and interfaith harmony organised an international conference on promotion of religious tolerance which was attended by grand mufti of Egypt, Shwaki Ibrahim, and…
Newspapers nowadays are full of reports on politics, cricket and about the pathetic condition an average Pakistani is living in. We hardly ever see or hear anything good about the…
The changing climate pattern around the globe poses a formidable threat to dwellers of the earth and though there is a growing consciousness about this potential weapon of mass destruction,…
Pakistan’s future also depends on the way the country is perceived by the world outside. The country’s narrative needs to change. It is viewed negatively by the world at large…
The Hagia Sophia was built in 537AD as a grand Orthodox Christian basilica in Istanbul and remained so till the Ottoman conquest in 1453 when it was converted into a…
She had hoped to spend the last days of her life with the memories of her darling papa in Mumbai. But her last wish was never fulfilled. Instead, she died…
One can’t help but be shocked by the rhetoric used by political leaders in TV programmes. It leaves the impression that all norms of decency, social value and Divine Edicts…
For the past few weeks, we have been seeing and hearing about the horrific persecution of Muslims in the Arakan district of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Fanatic Buddhist monks and regular…
I never saw or met Ghulam Fatima in my whole life, but for me she is a symbol of independence. I heard about her for the first time in 1971…
