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Khalid Saleem

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Brave new world of technology!

28.01.2025 90

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Frogs and the French!

21.01.2025 30

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Of (absent-minded) professors!

14.01.2025 20

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Some more equal than others!

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...

31.12.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

The ides of December!

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...

24.12.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Ecological disasters waiting to happen!

Nature is a great leveler; it refuses to differentiate between the developed and the under-developed, the rich and poor. If the world...

17.12.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

The forsaken!

The unwelcome developments of late have had the unwelcome effect of turning whatever life there was upside down on this blessed planet. Most...

10.12.2024 5

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Of doomsday scenarios!

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...

19.11.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Equitable apportionment of water resources

  Inequitable apportionment of water resources is fast becoming the cause of tension in several regions of the world. Our region is no exception....

12.11.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Elusive secret of living longer!

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...

05.11.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Of (absent-minded) professors!

  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...

29.10.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Age as an attitude of mind!

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...

22.10.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Emerging world order!

RECENT developments on the international scene point towards a rapidly evolving World Order. For one thing, the United States’ reign as the sole...

15.10.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

The survival ladder?

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...

07.10.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Is the world in for water wars?

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...

30.09.2024 7

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Man’s inhumanity to man

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...

23.09.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Brave new world of technology!

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...

09.09.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

Corruption a la carte!

THERE are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any newspaper and these...

02.09.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem

77th Independence Day of Pakistan

12.08.2024 5

Pakistan Observer

Khalid Saleem