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The late prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, largely eliminated corruption from Singapore and thereby transformed it from a third-world to a...
Anti-corruption measures can only have cumulative success if they are part and parcel of good governance. In the absence of good governance,...
In Chinese thinking the strategic discourse is more holistic and integrated than segmented just as is the case with its medical, political and...
In a talk at the National Defence College, Kissinger likened strategy to a chess game in which each player seeks to control the maximum number of...
For Pakistanis in their present condition, it would be irrelevant to discuss strategic leadership and statecraft without reference to the realities...
[This is based on a talk by Mueen Afzal, former secretary of general finance, a prominent philanthropist and chairman of several national...
Haal-e-chaman par talkh nawai/ Murgh-e-chaman, kuch iss se ziyada (A bitter song on how the garden is/ Oh nightingale, say more than this!) – Faiz...
These were originally remarks at a recent memorial meeting: a galaxy of Pakistani luminaries have paid truly exceptional tributes to the late Sartaj...
‘Asbahna wa asbaha-lmulku lillahi rabb-il’alameen’ (We awake and the country awakes to Allah the Lord of the Universe) — Hadith Sharif ...
IN a seminal article in the latest issue of the US establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, under the caption ‘The Self-Doubting Superpower’,...
“Jaag mere Punjab ke Pakistan chala” — Habib Jalib RECENTLY, Prof Christophe Jaffrelot, an authority on India’s Muslims, spoke on ‘The...
‘Koi khwaab na ho to bataen kya?’ (When no dreams stay what can one say?) — Athar Nafees (sung by Farida Khanum) ON Nov 21, Dr Jeffrey Sachs,...
Who is Hamas? Any child who hasn’t run away THE Jabalia Camp massacre changes everything. We are dealing with a criminally insane entity called...
Palestinians breed and bleed and advertise their misery — Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor SUPPOSE an enemy country were, God forbid, to besiege...
La Taqnatu min-Rahmatullah — (Do not despair of Allah’s Mercy) — Al-Quran EXPLANATIONS of human behaviour — whether individual, group or...
“In the end, no matter what one does, a great army in the middle of a democratic nation will always be a great peril, and the most effective means...