Earlier this week I wrote that “Meeting the needs of the people requires compromise. It requires the willingness to work with other people – even those you don’t agree with. It requires the organizational capacity of a political party, not cheap publicity stunts and sound bites. It’s always easiest to say ‘no’. Finding a way [...]
The following article appeared in Jang 26 April 2011. Original article is in Urdu but has been translated to English. WHAT IS THE REAL DEAL? by Nazir Naji The day Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kyani, protesting the martyrdom of 35 innocent people, denounced the Drone attack on the jury (jirga) of [...]
Imran Khan said recently that “My party will never become a part of the proposed national set-up because I cannot compromise on principles.” My immediate reaction was that the PTI chief should have made a more honest statement: “My party will never become a part of the proposed national set-up because I cannot win the [...]
While many economic indicators have shown that the national economy contains significant potential for improvement, progress is slower than necessary to keep pace with the growing population and needs of the country’s poor. Shahid Javed Burki examines the economic stress in the country and notes that one of the largest obstacles to improvement is political [...]
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” – Thomas Watson, Sr., founder of IBM I am going to make a controversial statement, but I ask that you please hear me out completely before you call me crazy and click to the next website. Are you ready? Here we go: I [...]
Irshad Ahmed Arif’s piece in Daily Jang of Monday titled Toollu expressed rather eloquently the righteousness of Ghairat Brigade, and it took me back to my childhood days. A gentleman on our street was a famous alcoholic. For some time he was able to hide this problem. He had a decent house, a respectable salary, [...]
By MNA Farahnaz Ispahani Pakistan faces an education emergency — a fact known widely but discussed insufficiently by Pakistan’s political and media elite. The inadequacy of quality education renders our country incapable of dealing with the challenges of the 21st century. Redressing weaknesses of our education sector are a prerequisite for building a progressive, tolerant, enlightened and [...]
Babar Ayaz makes a good overview of causes of and solutions to load shedding in Daily Times. But as usual there is one major cause of power shortage that is conveniently left out of the discussion. 1 April KOHAT, April 1: Unidentified militants blew up two electricity pylons in Bazid Khel area adjacent to the [...]
The headlines have become so commonplace that sometimes they go unnoticed. “Shrine attack kills 41″. “Suicide bomber attacks Sufi shrine”. “Deadly attack on religious procession”. “Suicide attack targets Shia marchers”. Innocent Pakistanis being killed by extremist militants allegedly because they are practising some religious acts that the extremists do not approve or according to some [...]
The controversial policy of recruiting retired military soldiers and officials to support the security forces of Bahrain against pro-democracy protestors threatens to undermine the credibility of complaints about foreign interference within our own borders. But this may not be the only affect. After reading a news report from last Friday, I think it is worth [...]