The writer teaches at SZABIST, Islamabad
Tragic incidents, as the one we all witnessed with great shock and anger in Sialkot, have left us with no option but to go back to our roots and...
Imagine this scene from the Stone Age: people are living in caves and are completely dependent on Nature for their survival; they are vulnerable to...
Some universities around the globe had put in place strategic plans to capitalise on ICT and make a gradual shift to online education prior to the...
Afghanistan is on its way back to the 90s, when the then USSR withdrew under international pressure and internal economic mess.Back then,...
Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan lamented that change of government in Pakistan every five years was tragic for setting long-term...
Like many other unresolved perennial issues in Pakistan, the question of which language to use as medium of instruction during the formative years...
Every time one listens to a minister or reads a news story about what the government is doing and how well it is doing, one is only stuffed with...
Islamophobia is now a real problem in the West and it has far-reaching consequences for the global order and peace.The West, comprising...
Artificial Intelligence, which many believe is a force for good in the world, has actually a dark side for consumers, citizens, and especially for...
Hindutva has permeated Modi’s India. Politics, medicine, social activities, and media all are deeply infected by a nostalgic need to restore the...
It is increasingly becoming clear that the post-Covid-19 world will be profoundly different from what humanity has been accustomed to for...
The traditional balance sheet, with its main emphasis on capital as the primary concern of managers, is skewed in favour of the shareholders and has...
The year 2019 started with clouds of despair and uncertainty hovering over the country’s economy and politics. It ended with much of the same –...
Paradoxically, as and when a state becomes more powerful than the society it rules, it begins to fade. In the same way, a society trying to grab...
One problem with history is that it is amenable to many interpretations with its persistent misuse by the power elites through conscious efforts to...
What a government can and should do is a difficult question to answer. Even more problematic is the question of how to design the governance...
Someone had to make the blunder of revoking Articles 370 and 35-A. It was long overdue, given the fact that the sham 'accession' of Kashmir to India...
The proverb ‘empty vessels make the most noise’ aptly describes how our politicians behave inside and outside parliament – talking non-stop...
With the emergence of the smartphone and the internet on the horizon of the 21st century, everyone imagined a world different from what it had been...
Money may motivate individuals to perform more and better but not always and not everywhere.At times it may be doing quite the opposite of what it...
Education, once thought to be the key for unlocking human potential and a major driver of personality development, seems to have lost ground to...
Imran Khan’s vision of transforming Pakistan into the state of Madina is what we all wish to happen. The Madina state, with so many challenges to...
Pakistan’s debt burden, which is almost breaking its back, is the outcome of poor economic management and bad politics. Reversing the trend is as...
Let it not be construed from this writing that one is trying to sell hopelessness and nostalgia. Let bygones be bygones if the future offers us...
Let it not be construed from this writing that one is trying to sell hopelessness and nostalgia. Let bygones be bygones if the future offers us...
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in the social sciences to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting...
How pitiful it is when twins cannot live together in peace. Seventy years of living in close geographical proximity but without much interaction...
Many believe that the US’s wars around the world are dictated by circumstance at hand and largely driven by high moral ideals such as protection...
There are hopes and there are fears. As the saying goes, it is the best of times and the worst of times. At the dawn of 2019, we can collectively...
Most of us believed, and some still believe, that a third political force would introduce a new model of governance in Pakistan – a model focused...
In a country like Pakistan where geographical and financial problems may hinder access to education, distance learning seems to be the only...
Imran Khan, our much-celebrated PM, draws heavily on cricket as a metaphor to share his views about the way he conducts himself in politics and his...
Education is the key to unlocking one’s full potential. Ideally, education stimulates one’s thinking and creates the urge to venture into new...
It does not portend well for a state if its vital organs compete with, or fear each other. A state, like an organism, owes its survival and healthy...
The media has permeated our lives so much that now we cannot live without it. It gives us information, entertainment and views on personal and...
Five years is a long time, particularly when it does not show a discernible pattern and is consumed by sporadic events and countless issues. In...
A newly-married couple was driving down Mall Road in Murree. One of them was intermittently tossing skins of fruit out on the road. The other –...
If the fundamentals are wrong, window dressing will not save a system from crumbling under its own weight. Our higher education, founded on weak...
Martin Luther King Jr’s voice reverberates across the world even after 50 years of his assassination. The relevance and importance of his voice...
Can the hawks in India and Pakistan guarantee peace through war? Can India wipe out Pakistan and vice versa? If the US, with the most formidable...
Psychologists say that we human beings, by default or by design, make errors in judgement. Some of them are so ingrained in our psyche that we even...
A few days ago, the International Development Minister, Lord Bates, resigned after being absent from the British parliament when a question he was...
The juggernaut of social media is out there to trample down anything that comes in its way. Religion, individual lives and politics all have to...
Social media is flooded with jokes about US President Donald Trump’s unorthodox style of running the most powerful country in the world. As he...
The article, ‘A number game’ published in these pages on October 31, should be an eye-opener for those running the show in the HEC. In...
US President Trump may have many things in mind to accomplish through his recent tough warnings and erratic leadership style. He wants the world to...
Does power really corrupt people? Why is it that people who acquire power after huge sacrifices succumb to the dictates of power and lose it to...
State failure is man-made and not predestined for some nations. States do not fail or fall primarily because they are poor in natural endowments or...
Every time there was a village festival, I would visit it with a deep yearning to see the much-talked about fight between a snake and a mongoose...
The digital age has brought in its wake a fundamentally new culture which, among other things, has introduced us to technology and redefined our...
