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Saturday, September 28, 2013
Dr Adil Najam - The banality of outrage
In 1961, political philosopher Hannah Arendt – one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century – travelled to Jerusalem as a reporter for The New Yorker to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a senior Nazi official in the Gestapo who played a leading role in organising the Holocaust. Arendt’s dispatches later became the very controversial and...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Dispossession, orthodoxy and Indo-centrism - Harris Khalique
The All-Parties Conference, which included the leadership of the major political forces and the military high command, has resolved to counter terrorism in the country by initiating a process of dialogue with Pakistani Taliban. In case the dialogue process fails, other options will be tried. No one who believes in a modicum of humaneness will...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Force or diplomacy? - Dr Maleeha Lodhi
President Barack Obama may well be able to secure Congressional approval for military action against Syria even if the vote appears too close to call now, as many lawmakers remain undecided. But the American president is still bereft of international support, except from a handful of countries. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim that such support...
One year after Baldia fire - ARIF AZAD
OVER the last year, accidents in garment factories in Pakistan and Bangladesh have exposed not only the hazardous conditions in which garment industry workers toil, but also the human price of cheap clothes sold in Western capitals.
The list begins with the fatal accident at Ali Enterprises, situated...
Being Asif Zardari -ZAHID HUSSAIN
“ISLAMABAD is already jolted and now let’s wait for the aftershocks.” That was my first reaction at a TV talk show on Sept 7 when the anchor asked for my views on Asif Zardari as president. A strong tremor had in fact hit parts of the country the previous night.
Like many political analysts I too...
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Small step down a long road - ABBAS NASIR
HAVE you ever wondered why there is so little balance in so many of our views? Things can’t always be all good or all bad. But that is how we see them.
Consider Thursday’s lunch hosted by the prime minister at his official residence to say farewell to the president who completes his term of office...
Shuddh Desi Romance - Movie Reviews
Story: One loverboy and two lovely ladies. Live-in, walk out, make-up, makeout. In turns. Not necessarily in that order. Confused about love and marriage, they follow their heart (at times) and all that lies in between (pun!).Review: So there, Bollywood breaks the stereotype. It steps out from behind the bloomin' trees in tulip fields...
Asking for the moon -IRFAN HUSAIN
AS the elusive search for peace in Karachi continues, with Nawaz Sharif attempting to forge a consensus, it is becoming increasingly obvious that there are no easy answers, no quick fixes.
And it’s not just Karachi, but most of Sindh that seems to have become dysfunctional. A combination of corruption,...
Parliament’s vote - A.G. NOORANI
BY any standard, the vote in Britain’s House of Commons on Aug 29 was a historic one. Its effects will be felt, and its significance better appreciated, with the passage of time.
By a narrow majority of 285 votes to 272, the house rejected the government’s motion on military intervention in Syria...
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