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Khalid SaleemThe Express Tribune |
THE one thing that the corona-virus Pandemic has brought in its wake is the realisation that nature abhors inequality. The Pandemic does appear to...
PASSAGE of half a century has not eased the pain of the traumatic events of 1971. Much has been written on the subject. Most analyses, though, have...
Nature is a great leveler; it refuses to differentiate between the developed and the under-developed, the rich and poor. If the world...
The unwelcome developments of late have had the unwelcome effect of turning whatever life there was upside down on this blessed planet. Most...
WITH the pall of gloom cast over the world, this can hardly be termed as an auspicious time to be talking of doomsday scenarios. But what choice...
Inequitable apportionment of water resources is fast becoming the cause of tension in several regions of the world. Our region is no exception....
ONE often comes across pieces in the media of the Third World stressing the fact that several developing countries are ‘youth-heavy’, in that young...
IT would be hard to find anyone who has not heard or read jokes featuring the (absent-minded) professor. With the possible exception of the...
IT is becoming something of a habit for our intelligentsia to label this blessed country as ‘young’ – ‘young’ that is in terms of the proportion of...
RECENT developments on the international scene point towards a rapidly evolving World Order. For one thing, the United States’ reign as the sole...
THE world is full of mugs – of more varieties than one! One would allude at this time simply to the ones in which one can sip tea or coffee. What...
COMING upon one of those billboards that blight the skyline of the Capital of this blessed land, one learnt to one’s horror that a certain bottled...
THESE days of confusion in the world at large one just cannot decide what to hold on to. One subject that thrusts itself on one’s consciousness is...
EFFORTS have been on for some time, it would appear, to ‘humanis the computer’. One would have thought that, as things stand, the influence of the...
THERE are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any newspaper and these...