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Ashraf Jehangir QaziDawn |
Tens of thousands of things need to be done to transform a traditional society and an underdeveloped country.
THE “most dangerous man in the world”, according to Noam Chomsky, is back in the White House. His first term in office proved him to be a...
‘Afdhalu jihad kalimatu ‘adl ‘inda sultan jabir’ (The best jihad is a word of truth to a tyrannical ruler) — Hadith Sharif AS a senior...
NEVER have India-Pakistan relations been so bad for so long. They barely exist today. In a polarised but interdependent world, with the Doomsday Clock...
We live in the same world and belong to the same species. Our experiences – both individually and collectively – are fundamentally similar despite...
WE talk a lot about the state of Pakistan today, and, by and large, it is not encouraging — to put it mildly. We are also part of the larger world...
There is much evil in the world today: globally, regionally, nationally, sub-nationally, and individually. There has, of course, always been evil in...
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...