Opinion

The strategic objective of Trump presidency is to reconfigure global geoeconomics and geopolitics

It's a scene straight out of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Rainwater harvesting has emerged as the most widely considered solution, and one that has already yielded results

Gone are the days when elders gathered to resolve disputes; today, tribal warlords exploit conflicts to gain income

Yi also said that relations between Tehran and Beijing are significant due to their strategic partnership

Many decades later, as a middle-aged man, I contend with a different question

Distinction has become especially important in Pakistan

Elite private schools prepare students for admission to leading universities at home and abroad

Archives create space for marginalised histories and provide evidence for scholars to reconsider overlooked practices

Charity and private philanthropy are not stand-ins for food security

A person who makes another litigate without reason seldom bears the reasonable cost of doing so

Sometimes, ordinary citizens following the law really surprise you

Concern arises when financial success begins to replace knowledge, experience and character as the measure of worth

Yuval Noah Harari makes an argument in his book Sapiens that science was driven by and advanced with capitalism

In February 2020, in a conference room in Doha, the Taliban put their signature on a promise

In the Emerging Global Order military power will be subservient to 'hard power'

Ageism is patriarchy’s second act: extracting value from women, then penalising them when it expires

The country's entrance examinations have evolved from assessments of aptitude into assessments of socioeconomic status

The more disturbing the image, the greater the emotional response

We should stop asking people to tighten their belts; some have already tightened them so much that we cannot breathe

Religious minorities hold reserved seats in the Senate, the National Assembly and every provincial assembly

Punjab was transformed by this bargain

Beyond consumer exploitation, this policy carries severe environmental and agricultural consequences

Representation of women on important topics that concern them just as much as men has been a problem for long

When we say sports and entertainment know no boundaries, we contextualise them in cross-border politics and warfare

Six years ago, I described motivational speakers as the new form of Banarasi Thugs

'Nothing is in order because our genetic makeup as a nation is out of order. The question is, can anything be done'

I write this assessment in early September when Trump's Iran was more than six months old

More judges and courtrooms matter, but delay is also produced by thousands of smaller frictions

Politics in Pakistan has never been smooth or tolerant, but with the escalating debate over creating new provinces

Pakistan's elite co-opt one another is certainly not to serve democracy, the country, or its people

Over the years technology improved, the internet boomed, and now news was available for free

Most of the Chinese conversation revolved around the rule of law

Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was completing a decade in power

Analogy is useful because both universes are visible to everyone

Douglass North's institutional theory provides a useful explanation for this equilibrium

All systems are sustained by mutual attraction; this truth is hidden in the life of the stars

India's placing of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in "abeyance" has no legal justification

India's deeply ingrained institutional hostility toward Pakistan blinds its military leadership to strategic realities

Most worrying part of Modi's speech was not his familiar account of India's economic transformation

Iran's systematic targeting of high-value technical assets in the US 5th Fleet in Bahrain has caused extensive damage

Science itself is full of ideas stranger than fiction

Elon Musk and a bunch of other self-righteous types always make this claim against immigration

CSCs are prima facie civilian objects and perform an important range of civilian functions

Across the science fiction stories, you find three responses to entropy: annihilation, resistance and preservation

National AI Policy 2025 promises to train one million people and produce 10,000 trainers

Britain entered the war as the world's banker and left it a debtor

Abolishing an outdated system is one thing, replacing it with a functioning one is quite another

Pakistan has spent decades mastering art of borrowing, refinancing and servicing debt

Some people seem to think friendship is measured by attendance