Opinion & Analysis

Strategic imprudence means a mindset which is confused, retrogressive, unwise and hollow. When a nation is strategically prudent in framing its economy, governance, rule of law, political discourse and mode...

The Arab-Islamic Summit in Doha and its declaration have stirred emotive discussion, many describing the moot as mere rhetoric without any tangible action. Staged in the wake of Israel's attack...

India's six-wicket win over Pakistan in the Asia Cup Super Fours game in Dubai was emphatic – sad to say, nearly as ever. The chase of 172 never looked in...

In a whirlwind of news stories that keep surpassing previous ones in their brutality, it would not be incorrect to say cruelty is endemic in Pakistan. Moreover, it is so...

The Palestinian statehood proposition took a leap forward as many Westminster countries endorsed it in de jure terms. The nod from Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal has come on the...

One of the most unsettling paradoxes in Pakistani society today is the gap between outward religiosity and inner moral emptiness. Many individuals who publicly display piety - through ritual practices,...

The "First cause" of agricultural ailment is embedded in a feudal ecosystem defined by unviable subsistence farming on millions of fragmented, land-crippled micro farms, covering 71.5% of the country's cropped...

In the wake of devastating flash floods that have ravaged Pakistan's northern regions, claiming countless lives and destroying livelihoods, a chorus of climate change experts has long warned that the...

About a decade or so ago, I got to know a bookseller in Urdu bazar Karachi. This bookseller was introduced to me by a friend who runs a small Urdu...

Humankind appears to move in cycles from times of war and destruction, to times of peace and prosperity. The earliest such cycle about which we have well-documented evidence dates back...