Hiring decisions should be preceded by an assessment of how much manpower govt need and how much it currently has

Pakistan would be a better place if there were a few more like Asma Jahangir

Extra-judicial killings of those accused of blasphemy occur with tragic regularity & warnings are almost always there

If Pakistan is to fight extremism successfully it needs to look inwards as well as outwards.

While Suparco is still occupied with weather patterns and mapping floods, an Indian satellite has entered Mars’...

Governments have managed to bungle, fudge, prevaricate & generally cock-up national responses to repeated inundations

The consequences of losing the fight against polio are unthinkable, and as of today we are not winning

The IS threat is so large that it has forced countries normally at one another’s throats to make strategic alliance

The CERN associate membership may, above all, be an acknowledgement of Pakistan as a legitimate nuclear power

There are no surprises in the ECP report, which is a portrait of bungling incompetence everywhere