A Chinese conspiracy? Really?
‘We always underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten years. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.’ (Bill Gates) It would be comical if it weren’t so tragic…
Anarchism: the political philosophy
In a world where people struggle to ‘posh up’ their accents, there is one man who worked at getting rid of his to remove all traces of his privileged background. That man…
Keeping the narrative alive
Last year, the first ever official report on multidimensional poverty in Pakistan was released. It was compiled with technical support from the UNDP and the University of Oxford. According to this…
Al-Bakistan
Like the Uroboros, again and again we return to point A It is only after you have effectively dealt with the past that you can move on to a meaningful…
Turn your face to the east and west
…and find no difference Anyone who incites violence in the name of what is right possesses a personal agenda There is always something to love about every country. There is an…
Pride at the grassroots
May God bless the people of Pakistan …it isn’t the leaders who make us proud. It is people like this. The common people of the country. Seventy years into…
Hoist by their own petard
This country often seems close to a destruction brought about by its own people. PTI women’s wing’s challenge shows how little justice is understood, how seldom people think, how unable…
Getting in to the Ministry of Magic
Which victory, pray tell, are we celebrating? Would you consider a man who admits to communication with a Supreme Court judge – whether or not this claim is true – to have…
There are many ways to skin a cat
Each political party must make it clear exactly what it stands for: rationally, not emotively To skin the cat painlessly and well represents the goal – the one thing that many parties…
Accountability for all
The people of Pakistan need a better perspective on world events The press and the people of Pakistan, and the US have, each separately, been following the sordid woes of the ruling…
Once upon a time, there was a goose
Making discrimination easier and differences prominent The Nazi regime in Hitler’s Germany barred Jews from holding public office, and from marrying persons of another race. Later of course many Jews were shot,…
An autopsy does not prevent murder
Nor does poverty, it would appear, preserve good sense in political leadership There’s a photograph of the man who can do no wrong, the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, his wife, the Belgian…
The various outposts of tyranny
A little sickening all around Political doublespeak is sickening. And Republican doublespeak doubly so, not that Democrats are much better. But in this truly nauseating respect they stink a little less.…
More pious than the pope?
What are our laws achieving today? The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) believed in and lived up to everything God taught him, the teachings of Islam. Seeing that all but one chapter of…
The plague in Karachi
The mind boggling idea of plague in Karachi There’s a story about a wife who tots up her husband’s total spending on beer for twenty years and tells him he could…
No success without accountability
Greased palms make the world go round When members of the National Assembly gathered on Friday the 26th of May this year to hear the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announce the Federal…
Calling a spade a spade
Sometimes it really is black and white One gets used to hypocrisy being a sizeable factor in politics, but sometimes things get nauseating. Obviously, this refers to Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi…