Pakistan’s score on democracy index remains above 4 since 2008
Founded in 1853 by Major James Abbott, it was raised by the British Royal Engineers
The representational image shows Teen Talwar, a renowned roundabout in the upscale area of Karachi. — APP/FileOn gaining independence, Karachi –...
In a democracy, which we claim we are, courts ensure that governance does not degenerate into a tyranny of the majority
Having confined squash, hockey and much else to oblivion, cricket gave us the occasional yet drastically needed euphoria
Shehbaz Sharif, as leader of the opposition, admonished us that “beggars can’t be choosers”
Before stepping out into packed Stade de France, Arshad trained at dilapidated non-air-conditioned gym of PU
Democracy, as a legitimate political system, has inbuilt tools of self-correction
Recent election in Pakistan saw internet outage, delay in results and Forms 45 and 47 allegedly citing different winners
Monarchs thought two things defined their thrones and imposed them zealously: declaring laws and waging war
Children sit in a shopping cart near a collapsed building following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, February 7, 2023. — Reuters Environmental...
By taking risks to criticize repressive governments or powerful, journalists, poets and writers work towards freedom of oppressed
Success of a nation depends on leaders who make public policy and thus determine critical outcomes
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has laid the foundation of a Daanish school in Islamabad’s Kuri Village
Aitchison College building can be seen. — Aitchison College Website/FileSound educational institutions remain a proven predictor of a nation’s...
The rehabilitation of a nation after state capture is as complex as it is cumbersome
The book also recounts how Tweed courted immigrants and turned the New York Supreme Court into a “naturalization mill”
Greek philosopher Plato opined that the wealthy fostered a lack of restraint and refrained from conforming to legal and moral standards.Nearly two...
Michael Dobbs wrote "House of Cards" almost 30 years ago after an argument with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, for whom he had been chief of...
A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. — AFPPalestine was never an empty piece of real...
The Arthashastra, Chanakya’s 4BCE Sanskrit exposition, is a book on statecraft that introduced an empire-running module expounding upon...
One of the most influential political philosophers John Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract and religious toleration in the...
Mr Prime Minister, a student delegation from Harvard University sat down with you on August 26. We were graced with the prime ministerial part of...
Slavery has persisted through the ages. It is a heart-wrenching saga for the inhumanity and tragedy it entails.Aristotle and Plato are considered...
Natural phenomena have since forever challenged and threatened humankind. In doing so, they have served as imperatives to create means and measures...
The quest for immortality has been as timeless as it has been fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates...
“In wartime”, Churchill famously told Stalin at Tehran in 1943, “truth is so precious that she must always be attended by a bodyguard of...
History remembers Emperor Constantine as one who legalized and made Christianity integral to the Roman Empire. He is also credited with laying the...
Our ruling dispensations have reduced an abundantly endowed Pakistan to a pauper state. With a mere $4 billion in our kitty, we have a mammoth...
It was Nato’s provocative endeavour of extending itself to Russia’s doorstep that thrust Ukraine into a devastating war. Now India – along...
Dr Aftab Ahmad from Kanganpur was a self-made person. Doing odd jobs, he earned his MEd from Allama Iqbal Open University, MPhil from Government...
The disintegration of the Soviet Union left the Middle East bereft of any alternatives to US leadership. Washington, a prisoner of American...
“After the spring of investigations comes the darkness of vendettas. We diagnosed an illness but they treated us instead of the sickness. If you...
A rogue state is defined as one that is repressive within and aggressive towards its neighbours. It supports and sponsors terrorism, has WMDs and is...
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time...
The Guantanamo Bay detention centre remains a sordid emblem of torture, indefinite incarceration and gross human right violations. The Presidential...
Rule of law is a cornerstone of democracy. It is also a foolproof safeguard against selective justice or certain groups and individuals meting out...
The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II culminated with her transition at her beloved abode, the Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Queen...
The year 46 BC consisted of 445 days; it was the longest one in history. Such anomalies were a common feature in the Roman calendar.The greatest...
Genocides are preceded by incitement and indoctrination through widely disseminated hate propaganda. Theologian and philosopher Abraham Heschel...
On July 6, 1808 King Joseph of Spain unveiled a constitution. It allowed peasants to retain their harvests, an independent judiciary and abolition...
“Your new-caught, sullen peoples, half devil and half child, take up the white man’s burden”. These lines are from a Rudyard Kipling poem...
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy made a commencement address at the American University in Washington. US intelligence reports had Nikita...
It was on a beautiful July afternoon that Norway bore the agony of its worst tragedy since World War II. A man planted a bomb in an Oslo building...
Fiction, it is said, is a figment of imagination. However, if decades or centuries later, characters and events from a work of fiction attain...
In 1946, Giulio Andreotti started his political career as a 27-year-old junior minister. Over a career spanning seven decades, he went on to become...
In a recent interview Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi sought the West’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans....
