An adieu, overdue
Carl Sagan’s book Cosmos (1960) tells us: “There are some hundred billion (10¹¹) galaxies, each with, on average, a hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, 10¹¹ x 10¹¹ = ...
October 13, 2022
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‘Cancel my debt, I’m flooded’
“There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” So said Shakespeare, little knowing that in Pakistani English his words might be twisted to squeeze a fortune out of a flood. How el...
Politics and the establishment
With just weeks left for him to doff his uniform, COAS Gen Qamar Bajwa has assured the nation that the armed forces have distanced themselves from politics and want it to stay that way. One would like to believe the good gener...
ECP’s welcome decision
Elections are an essential feature of democracy. There have been several recent examples where countries with strong democratic traditions have refused to postpone elections even during the Covid-19 pandemic. But Pakistan is a d...
Anti-militancy protests
PROTESTS against creeping militancy have been taking place in KP for several months now. But the latest demonstration in Swat, which was held after gunmen killed a van driver, Hussain Ahmed, and injured two s...
Political vendetta
There is little hope for the future if we must insist on remaining hung up on the past. The pound of flesh taken this year from the people of Pakistan due to persistent economic and political instability ought to have provided t...
Issues for COP27
The UN Climate conference (COP27) to be convened on November 6-18 at the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm El Sheikh will grapple with a number of issues that lie at the core of global climate action against a daunting political and...
Diplomacy: back on track?
On their recent visit to the United States to attend the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto held dozens of bilateral and multilateral meetings with their co...
Political priority list
Our current discourse in the political arena revolves essentially around corruption, various court cases related to this or to contempt of different kinds, and most lately, the audio leaks that have been emanating apparently fro...
Election time
The Election Commission of Pakistan has stuck to its schedule and announced that local bodies elections in Karachi and by-polls for national and provincial assemblies will take place on the dates earlier announced, apart from NA...