Zubeida Mustafa
THE Raymond Davis episode has proved, if nothing else, how impossible it is to fit people into neat categories....
Published 22 Mar, 2011 10:55pm
DR Tipu Sultan, president of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), has described the health situation in the...
Published 15 Mar, 2011 10:18pm
IN his famous essay Poverty and Famine, the Nobel Laureate for economics, Amartya Sen, writes that contrary to...
Published 08 Mar, 2011 10:00pm
SO the cat is out of the bag. Raymond Davis, or whatever his real name is, was a CIA agent. But should that shock us...
Published 01 Mar, 2011 10:25pm
THE question above is agitating many minds today. If we believe in the domino effect, other states should follow...
Published 22 Feb, 2011 09:55pm
ON Pakistan’s dismal political stage, what is conspicuously missing is the quality of leadership that essentially...
Published 15 Feb, 2011 10:00pm
IF an intellectual activity does not provoke critical thinking, it is not worth its while. In that context, the...
Published 08 Feb, 2011 09:55pm
IF the knowledge of schoolchildren in Pakistan had not been assessed independently before, the Annual Status of...
Published 01 Feb, 2011 10:05pm
PEARL S. Buck, the American author who rose to fame because of her graphic and insightful novels on ...
Published 25 Jan, 2011 10:43pm
WE all need heroes, if for no other reason than to inspire hope in our future. Heroes are also important for our...
Published 18 Jan, 2011 08:25pm
THE year 2010 will go down in history as the year of the great deluge when the fury of the Indus devastated large...
Published 12 Jan, 2011 12:43am
THERE are two seemingly unrelated issues which have been the subject of public debate time and again that need to be...
Published 04 Jan, 2011 10:17pm
HERE is some shocking bit of news that bodes ill for Pakistan’s future. A seminar organised by the International...
Published 28 Dec, 2010 07:43pm
AT a recent art exhibition on honour killing in Karachi and that was curated by eminent art critic and editor of...
Published 20 Dec, 2010 07:29pm
IN Pakistan, the WikiLeaks drama confirms conclusively — if confirmation was needed — that the media has opted for...
Published 15 Dec, 2010 12:52am
HOW many schools do we need to educate our children? According to the senior minister for education, Sindh, the...
Published 08 Dec, 2010 12:58am
THE uproar following Aasiya Bibi`s death sentence for alleged blasphemy has a familiar ring to it. If the past is...
Published 01 Dec, 2010 01:52am
IS change in the offing? I should hasten to add that I am not talking about political change in Islamabad which is...
Published 24 Nov, 2010 12:57am
PRIME Minister Gilani stirred a hornet`s nest when he termed Z.A. Bhutto`s 1972 policy of nationalisation of schools...
Published 16 Nov, 2010 07:05pm
THE government has ingenious ways of naming evils in our society. A ghost school is termed as a dysfunctional...
Published 10 Nov, 2010 01:05am
