To see a woman's social standing, just walk through a cemetery and read the gravestones
All males hold on to the name they used along their life’s journey while women's gravestones rarely carry their names.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
What when a woman dies?
To see where a woman stands in the social order just walk through a cemetery and read the gravestones.
Lal Masjid: appeasement again?
To reward those who killed our soldiers and policemen is inexplicable and a prescription for a second round.
Why Pakistan loses its best
This is the story of Pakistan’s most recognised mathematician and why we finally lost him.
Today, I am proudly Iranian
Outrage at America’s overseas rampages is joining together peoples with hugely different thoughts and beliefs.
Hooligans in high professions
That so many from the professional classes resort to hooliganism owes to their Ziaist-style school education.
Abdus Salam in China
Dr Abdus Salam’s role in seeking China’s help for Pakistan’s atomic bomb has just been revealed.
Our ghost mathematicians
Ghost teachers in Pakistani rural schools are common enough but few know of our ghost mathematicians.
God bless liberal fascists
Mr Prime Minister: welcome to the liberal camp! You are saying now what we liberals have said for 20 years.
Beware the nuclear con man
Nuclear strategists are actually not nuclear experts and have no ability to predict any significant nuclear event.
Ditched by the ummah
KSA and UAE cannot call for self-determination in Kashmir for fear of consequences at home.
Promises broken and kept
Pakistan has kept its commitments to Kashmiris; now it must fulfil promises made to its own citizens.
Pakistan’s slice of the moon
Aiming for a culture of science will serve Pakistan better than trying to match India’s new moon shot.
Clients and patrons
Here’s how a weak state can survive in today’s cruel world without a protector and patron.
Bad math — big blunders
Mathematics is all about reason but reason in Pakistan appears to have dried up in recent times.
HEC — stormy times up ahead
The Banuri-Rahman tiff provides an opportunity to debate the future shape of our universities.
Crunch time for universities
Pakistan’s broken university system cries out for basic attitudinal changes; money cannot fix it.
F-16 or JF-17 – which was it?
As silicon chips battle the adversary’s silicon chips the era of aerial dogfighting is closing down.
Pakistan’s terrified Christians
One hopes for the day when Pakistan has a prime minister like New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern.
Why Bangladesh overtook Pakistan
Eschewing militarism in favour of human development, Bangladesh set its initial priorities correctly.