Tag: English Articles
Bowled out in Daska By Ghazi Salahuddin
During the past two-and-a-half years that it has been in power, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has dropped catches and bowled no-balls. But now it...
Saving Pakistan Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
WHEN I returned from the UN in 2010 Pakistan was being misgoverned by the PPP. This culminated in the national humiliation of the...
Crumbs of neutrality? – Abbas Nasir
THE fears of sceptical Pakistanis are easily allayed, with the latest prime example being the stance taken by the Election Commission of Pakistan...
By-election fiasco – Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
BY-ELECTIONS do spring surprises occasionally but despite the uncertainty about individual contests, these are considered sedate affairs in a democracy as, unlike a...
Senate Elections 2021 – Ikram Sehgal
In the Upper House of Parliament in Pakistan, the Senate discusses proposed laws and votes on them just like MNAs do in the...
Library? Yes or no – Zubeida Mustafa
AT the Pakistan Learning Festival, the session on ‘Incredible Libraries’ attracted many bibliophiles. It is a paradox that in this age of ‘un-education’...
A joy forever. – Mahir Ali
THE headstone above a final resting place dug in Rome’s non-Catholic cemetery 200 years ago today bears the indelible inscription: “This grave contains...
Reviving a moral universe – Rafia Zakaria
IN or around the year 1210 a poet was born in the Persian city of Shiraz. Not unlike now, those years were a...
The political chessboard By Zahid Hussain
POLITICS is a war of nerves and political battles can result in terrible mistakes. What happened in the NA-75 by-election last week shows...
Cursory knowledge – F.S. Aijazuddin
A BOOK is a human mind compressed between two covers. A library is an orderly arrangement of books. And a virtual literature festival...