Pervez Hoodbhoy
To gag voices that dare criticise abuse of power cannot lead to a better and more viable Pakistan.
Updated 23 Jun, 2018 08:39am
Science suffocates when scientists are judged by their religion, race or ethnicity.
Updated 13 May, 2018 08:33am
India would have been a dump for crackpot science had Modi been its first prime minister.
Updated 21 Apr, 2018 10:45am
Greed-propelled professors must be stopped from wrecking Quaid-i-Azam University.
Updated 31 Mar, 2018 10:31am
Missiles like Shaheen or Agni are minor technical feats but testing them helps create war psychosis.
Published 10 Mar, 2018 07:13am
Exceptional genes plus fortunate circumstances is why some become maths-science superstars.
Updated 17 Feb, 2018 06:08am
While PTV can be criticised, it has stayed above the gutter-level broadcasts of some private TV channels.
Updated 31 Jan, 2018 08:40pm
Siding with those who deliberately seek to starve Yemen’s children has degraded Pakistan’s moral status.
Updated 06 Jan, 2018 08:41am
Operation Zarb-i-Azb’s success has persuaded the army that deviant militants can be successfully crushed.
Published 16 Dec, 2017 07:12am
There’s a belated realisation that thousands of Pakistani lives were lost to militancy fuelled by hate material.
Updated 25 Nov, 2017 07:47am
The most worrying aspect of the QAU strike is that it exposes Pakistan’s failed attempt at nation building.
Published 04 Nov, 2017 02:23am
Pakistan’s generals and politicians would rather bomb IS than argue logically against it.
Published 14 Oct, 2017 07:00am
Football and cricket are supposed to keep students away from guns and bombs. Should one laugh or cry?
Published 23 Sep, 2017 05:59am
Religion in politics produces a highly toxic, explosive mix.
Published 02 Sep, 2017 03:31am
The Indian pilot’s mistake could have activated Pakistan’s war plans and triggered its nuclear assets.
Updated 12 Aug, 2017 09:07am
It is time to give the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation a decent burial.
Updated 22 Jul, 2017 12:23pm
Our universities need to be reoriented towards teaching and moved away from so-called research.
Published 01 Jul, 2017 07:07am
Pakistan must declare its neutrality in the Saudi-Iran conflict by immediately quitting the Saudi-led IMA.
Updated 21 Jun, 2017 01:52pm
Kashmiri nationalists must realise the grave dangers of giving more space to religious extremists.
Updated 27 May, 2017 07:30pm
Much of the Pakistani public, tacitly or openly, endorses violent punishment of suspected blasphemers.
Updated 07 Feb, 2018 08:21am
