Tag: Abbas Nasir
Coping with Covid perils – Abbas Nasir
COVID-19 has changed the world in no uncertain terms and, despite a voracious reading of all the scientific information that is in the public...
De-programming the robot – Abbas Nasir
“HANG them! Destroy them! Humiliate them! We won’t stay home so they can grow! No more!” screamed a placard held in the hands of...
A life cut short so cruelly – Abbas Nasir
IT may be clichéd to say a picture is worth a thousand words but the photographs taken by Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui were poignant...
Balochistan conundrum – Abbas Nasir
SIX years after Pakistan’s last attempt to try and embrace estranged Baloch leaders failed, or was foiled, Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a...
Looming Afghan disaster – Abbas Nasir
AFGHANISTAN is heading towards a full-blown civil war, following the US-led troop pullout and, with Pakistan fearing the inevitable fallout of that slide into...
Not all is doom and gloom – Abbas Nasir
IT has been more than two weeks since the news broke that a Pakistan Railways official posted in Sukkur had warned his bosses multiple...
Train crash tragedy foretold – Abbas Nasir
MEDIA is often slammed for focusing on far too many negative things but even if we were to ignore in the name of...
PML-N bad cop outfoxed – Abbas Nasir
THE government is anticipating substantial relief for Pakistan in the Financial Action Task Force’s upcoming plenary meeting scheduled at the end of the month....
Faint ray of hope gone too – Abbas Nasir
WITH the tiniest rays of hope for a change in the country’s skewed power equilibrium disappearing with the disintegration of the PDM, the politics...
Unimpeded by facts – Abbas Nasir
AFTER having exhausted all other avenues to trace investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad, his brother-in-law reported him missing to the local police station...