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A matter of context
Ordinary folk base their choice on pragmatic considerations.
Anjum Altaf
Plain truths about the economy
How do individuals exist at this level of deprivation?
When will we learn?
Dr Salam and Iqbal did not know their future careers at the start of their education, nor did they start it in English.
A guide to inequality
The real issue is social inequality. Without gains on this front economic justice would remain unattainable.
CSS reform
Very few graduates want to join the CSS.
CPEC: The case for full disclosure
Intellectual honesty demands a stance of neutrality on CPEC till the terms and conditions are disclosed.
Nowhere to go
There may be no place in Pakistan to run away to.
Probing the CSS examination
Some questions reveal a sloppiness that comes in the way of a proper understanding of the question.
Mind the money
We seem to be living in a world in which anything goes.
Healthcare needs a warning label
Standards have slipped because regulatory capacity has been outstripped by the number of facilities.
In our fight against terrorism, too many questions remain unanswered
How the terrorists who have been eliminated were identified and located so quickly?
Locating the enemy
It is quite hard to believe that our enemies convinced us to create these monsters.
The problem with land grants
It is reasonable to ask for a transparent disclosure of the rules applicable to land grants.
The begging bowl
Why is no one willing to change a broken development model?
CPEC: lessons from history
What came of all the colonial-era investment and what economic transformations did it sustain?
The death of classical music
One can say that classical music is dead in Pakistan because the art form is not part of the sensibility of a new
Inherent bias
The CSS exam screens for a particular type of candidate.
CSS danger alert
Civil service exams are not testing for intelligence.
Education and politics
Whoever controls what students believe and how they think controls the future.
Interrogating democracy
The rules of governance must be re-examined.