April 20th, 2012 - April 26th, 2012 |
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Political discourse in Pakistan revolves around a quest for a hero and a yearning for a revolution he will bring. Belief in a charming, reckless, angry, authoritarian, masculine savior...
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Pakistan is right now witnessing the battle between judiciary and the executive. Although the apparently the tussle is between Prime Minister and the judiciary yet in reality it is the..... | ||
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An interesting discussion centers on whether ‘Circumstances create leaders or leaders create circumstances’. Some contend that it is more a matter of character than of circumstance.
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Historically, charismatic leadership has not been very advantageous. And a brief look at the past can substantiate this claim. The worst examples include Franco, Mussolini...
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Well, let’s take Martin Luther King. See, I think Martin Luther King was an important person, but I do not think that he was a big agent of change. In fact, I think Martin Luther King was able to pla... | ||
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In the second half of the seventies the late Kablitz wrote an article entitled, "The Mind and the Senses as Factors of Progress," in which, referring to Spencer, he argued that the senses played the pr... | ||
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Attention has been focused on this conflict with the convening of the annual meeting of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the annual trek to this convention by the Israeli Prime... | ||
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AS 2011 CLOSED, the mainstream press was awash with ominous, dark assessments of the state of the relationship between the United States and Pakistan. After a cross-border NATO air strike in November r... | ||
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The elections for the Upper House that were heatedly discussed in the print and electronic media have been successfully conducted. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its coalition partners have cr... | ||
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It is a strange irony that when we fail to comprehend reality around us, then fiction helps us to understand it in its true colour by bringing forth strong undercurrents that contribute to the formatio... | ||
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1. The movements that swept Ben Ali and Mubarak from power, saw the end of the Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya, have been challenging Assad in Syria for almost a year and have affected the whole of the A... | ||
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Sikander Hayat made a statement which aimed at pacifying his Unionist Party. The Secretary of State, Amery, refers to it in his letter dated 8 October 1941. Sikander Hayat proposed that the British mak... | ||
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16. Spring of Hope!
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For about fifteen years, microfinance has been touted as an essential means of emerging from poverty by international institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A... | ||
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Describing what may well be a moment in his own life in 1970s Taiwan, American journalist Richard Bernstein writes about the feelings a white American man has for his Taiwanese girlfriend: “he even l... | ||
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When The Wall Street Journal reporter Margaret Coker visited the Libyan government’s surveillance centre in Tripoli after the city’s fall, she saw that the authorities had been monitoring everythin... | ||
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In my 1912 Baedeker guide to Syria, a page and a half is devoted to the city of Homs. In tiny print, it says that, "in the plain to the south-east, you come across the village of Baba Amr. A visit to t... | ||
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