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Why Bangladesh overtook Pakistan
Eschewing militarism in favour of human development, Bangladesh set its initial priorities correctly.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Tamimi, Malala and Rahaf — icons of freedom
These young women must be celebrated for what they did and not judged by how the West sees them.
QAU’s land is PTI’s litmus test
Undoing the theft of QAU’s land will be a strong test of PTI’s stated resolve to fight corruption.
Madina state and ‘naya’ Pakistan
Does Imran Khan want to adopt the Madina state’s laws and emulate it as a political entity?
Don’t surrender to mob rule
A similar open call for murder and mutiny by other Pakistanis would meet extreme punishment.
Why attempts to reform Pakistani education fail
Every attempt to modernise education has run into an invisible brick wall of culture and conservatism.
Europe’s perplexed Pakistanis
Why do Pakistanis enjoying the West’s pluralism stay silent about pluralism within Pakistan?
Religious bias okayed
To wilfully use religious sentiment for worldly gain is now firmly part of Pakistan’s political culture.
A Pakistani Hawking?
Pakistan has produced many good cricketers and businessmen but not a single mathematician.
July elections: the certainties
These elections will be neither free nor fair but to vote is still important.
Cyber intimidation: a bad idea
To gag voices that dare criticise abuse of power cannot lead to a better and more viable Pakistan.
The ‘Salam Centre’ brouhaha
Science suffocates when scientists are judged by their religion, race or ethnicity.
What India owes to Nehru
India would have been a dump for crackpot science had Modi been its first prime minister.
A university self-destructs
Greed-propelled professors must be stopped from wrecking Quaid-i-Azam University.
Missile worship not warranted
Missiles like Shaheen or Agni are minor technical feats but testing them helps create war psychosis.
Ramanujan and Salam — what inspired them?
Exceptional genes plus fortunate circumstances is why some become maths-science superstars.
Manipulating Pakistani minds
While PTV can be criticised, it has stayed above the gutter-level broadcasts of some private TV channels.
Don’t dare mention Yemen
Siding with those who deliberately seek to starve Yemen’s children has degraded Pakistan’s moral status.
Mainstreaming jihad: why now?
Operation Zarb-i-Azb’s success has persuaded the army that deviant militants can be successfully crushed.
Textbooks – kudos to Punjab
There’s a belated realisation that thousands of Pakistani lives were lost to militancy fuelled by hate material.