Policy, strategy and leadership deficit in countering terrorism
Muhammad Ali Nekokara | Nov 03, 2016 The terrorist attack on Police Training College (PTC) Quetta on October 24, including the loss of 62...
Let’s talk science!
Sheikh Fayaz | Nov 04, 2016 An open letter to Dr. Parvez Hoodbhoy, by Sheikh Fayaz Dear Dr. Parvez Hoodbhoy, I hope that this humble piece of...
No province for young men
Raza Rumi | Nov 04, 2016 If police training centre attacks are to be prevented, Balochistan will need a well-trained police force not a paramilitary...
Voluntourism: What’s Wrong With The ‘White Savior Complex’?
In the recently uploaded video, the group of young female missionaries can be seen dancing with plastic jerry cans on their heads and donning mosquito...
Is NAP a challenge or an opportunity?
Mohammad Ali Babakhel | Nov 02, 2016 Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long,you miss them.” — William Arthur Ward After 22 months of the...
Higher Education Vision 2025
Dr. Pervaiz Tahir | Nov 03, 2016 Reports in a section of the press inform that a Higher Education Vision 2025 is about to be...
Occupational accidents: moving towards safe work
Iftikhar Ahmed | Nov 03, 2016 Decent work is, in essence, safe work. Manufacturing and mining were already considered part of the sweatshops however the...
Disenfranchising The ‘Other’
M.G. Vaidya (‘The price of personal law, IE, November 1) makes chilling reading. It is not easy to believe that in a democracy, someone...
A Jaded Congress Could Not Have Asked For More
For a Congress that has been on the back foot on a number of issues politically, including being on the wrong side of the...
Democracy in the West and Pakistan
Imtiaz Gul | Nov 01, 2016 Lust for political power, permit, patronage and privileges stand out as the hallmark of a democracy (or the absence...
An Invitation To Peace-Mongering
SHASHANK JOSHI | Nov 01, 2016 Our sense of patriotism is so official, aggressive, masculine and managerial, that we have no sense of the processes...
India’s Growing Arms Footprint in Afghanistan Enables Regional Power Projection
SHASHANK JOSHI | Nov 1, 2016 India’s growing arms footprint in Afghanistan points to an important future aspect of its regional power projection. “We have a...