Increasingly vulnerable

Of some natural and plenty of self-created conflicts

The sentencing of Dr Shakil Afridi to 33 years in jail initially for his alleged cooperation with...

Capital flight

The Washington Post recently published an article that contended that the energy crisis is probably a bigger threat to Pakistan than terrorism. While terrorists do pose a serious...

PML(N)’s ‘party-crashing’

It is unfortunate that the PML(N) government in Punjab decided to hold local government elections on a non-party basis after deferring the election on one pretext or the...

Law and order

When the world talks about Pakistan, the name that comes on the top of the discussion is that of Karachi city. The largest commercial and financial centre of...

An award for Edhi

I suggest that Abdul Sattar Edhi, an internationally renowned social worker, must be given a special award for saving the lives of thousands of innocent people of Lyari...

Long live parochialism

History will always remember PM Gilani for his services in preserving and strengthening the feudal structure in the Seraiki belt and interior Sindh, where the golden rule is...

Environmental crimes

I still vividly remember the definition of a word “Environment’ which one of my professors, Professor Dr (Late) Muhammad Ibrahim Pathan, of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department...

No military solution?

A few days ago, the Indian delegate, Mani Shankar, said that there can be no military solution to the Kashmir conflict. I would very much like to ask...

Swat thanks UAE

It is with great pleasure and joy that I write today. For the first time in my life I witnessed my prayers answered. I would like to thank...