“Don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology,Don’t know much about the science book, don’t know much about the French I took…” THIS is an old song, which seems to be an apt de...
IT was a humid Sunday afternoon in Islamabad. The small pharmacy was empty with just one man behind the cash counter. A woman approached him, prescription and medicines in hand. She was simply but not...
CONVERSATIONS about Pakistan easily and comfortably slide into clichés. The phrase ‘land of the pure’ is a personal favourite. Different generations — from boomers all the way down to the mille...
IT might be an odd week to write about journalism and indulge in some navel gazing, for much has happened in recent days to keep everyone occupied. From the Imran Khan health saga to tragedies that ha...
THE long, hard summer is coming to an end, and with it, politics seems to be awakening from its hibernation. It may partly have been the end of the summer holiday at parliament, but for once, the poli...
FROM collapse to rebirth, phoenix-like. If the discussions and chatter are to be believed, the collapsed system is gearing up to save the country and its people by ‘devolution’. If, in the process...
THE past couple of weeks have been packed with news and not just of the international kind. There were elections in Azad Kashmir, verbal duelling between the PPP and PML-N and an intense debate on a s...
IT wasn’t an ordinary day by any stretch of the imagination, even though it began rather ordinarily. There was little news to interest anyone (and Kashmir was a no-no for television channels). Initi...
BALOCHISTAN bled again this past week — for the rest of the country. In reality, it is the part of the homeland that has rarely ever stopped bleeding over the past 20 years. But for those of us who ...
A RECENT World Bank report has looked into the NFC Award post-18th Amendment and provided some interesting details. For instance, it has shown how the bulk of the money seems to have gone into expandi...