If your house is burning
Imran Khan should remember he is PM The Prophet Muhammad would target the leaders of a community when spreading his message. This was not because he was a sycophant, but because he…
Childhood immunisation
Making vaccines compulsory will not work As medical knowledge currently stands, it is clear that immunisation protects the immunised person, and society, from the spread of infectious diseases. Immunisation is, therefore, beneficial…
The responsibilities that go with it
Instead of being more tolerant and caring, we are the opposite One angle to events such as the horrific tragedy, the massacre in Sri Lanka is that the people apparently responsible for…
This perpetually burning building
The people who make the country bearable On April 15th at around 16.30 GMT, a fire broke out under the wooden roof of the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral, one of France’s most…
Pot calling the kettle black?
The Koh-i-Noor isn’t coming here any time soon Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has demanded that Britain should apologise for the 1919 Jalianwala Bagh massacre, and the 1943 Bengal famine. Oh, and as…
CODDIWOMPLING: Travelling purposefully towards a vague destination
Would we have been in this mess if we had kept Atif Mian? Back in 1896 the American Supreme Court ruled that so long as public facilities were the same for whites…
The ‘un-Islamic’ punch
Women are human as well An answer to a question on Quora regarding the best punch in boxing says: ‘As a generalisation, a right cross will suit many taller people, and a…
The power of symbolism
Whether there is eternal glory is known only to Him People appear to be divided between two opposing camps, one that believes there is eternal glory in store for those who give…
Manipulative advertising
Our country does need us Advertising is not meant to be simply inane jingles and cavorting models, although it often is; there is supposed to be some serious psychology behind the exercise,…
Gender incongruence
There is little point in a ruling unless it is enforced The ICD, International Classification of Diseases, is the ‘standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes,’ directed and coordinated…
QĬNG CHÌ SĀ DÀN
Stop racism please! If Adam and Eve had been Chinese they would have eaten the snake rather than let it live to plague their descendants. Imagine, if you can: no Hitler, no…
The un-breathable air
Burning crops is not the only source of pollution There are several reasons why you’re having a problem breathing in Lahore these days. The air over Pakistan is always polluted, but for…
Too many walls
Not enough bridges It’s an ageless process, building walls in anattempt toprotect oneself from perceived or real external threats, which does not justify the proposed wall between the US and Mexico. It…
Adopt a madrassah?
Good, although these ‘business enterprises’ will need to be monitored The PTI manifesto states as part of a promise to transform education that it will ‘map out and register all seminaries across…
Like sending man to mars?
Pakistan’s record of resettling displaced persons has not been good NASA is preparing to send manned flights to Mars. The pilot of the first human flight to leave earth’s orbit in 1968,…
The way the government functions
Irrational reasons for legislation Basant was the indirect cause of so many deaths and injuries each year it’s been banned in the Punjab since 2005, with several lapses in between. At no…