Zubeida Mustafa
THE narratives of Pakistan’s flood experience are drawing to a close. According to the National Disaster Management...
Published 02 Nov, 2010 07:14pm
THE tent cities for the flood-affected in Khairpur are now being dismantled. According to the EDO of the district...
Published 27 Oct, 2010 12:00am
A CLUTCH of letters has appeared recently in Dawn debating the language issue in education. A very sensible one by...
Published 12 Oct, 2010 09:51pm
IT was President John F. Kennedy who exhorted Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you...
Published 06 Oct, 2010 12:00am
SO the ‘inevitable’ has come to pass. The government has announced that the defence budget will be increased by...
Published 29 Sep, 2010 12:00am
HISTORY is replete with examples of societies having cleverly turned their adversity into a window of opportunity to...
Published 08 Sep, 2010 12:00am
ANOTHER terrorist plot, described as `home-grown`, has been unearthed in Canada, belying conventional theories about...
Published 01 Sep, 2010 12:00am
FOR the past several weeks I have been an interested observer of a controversy that has kept Canadians engaged. It...
Published 25 Aug, 2010 12:00am
FOR some time now — especially since the electronic media was unwittingly liberated by the military government of ...
Published 18 Aug, 2010 12:00am
FOR some time now — especially since the electronic media was unwittingly liberated by the military government of ...
Published 18 Aug, 2010 12:00am
WHEN natural disaster strikes, it can affect the rich and the poor, but not alike. Calamities such as floods and...
Published 11 Aug, 2010 12:00am
THERE was a time when political analysts described Pakistanis as being moderate in their religious beliefs and...
Published 04 Aug, 2010 12:00am
FOR long it has been debated by women`s rights activists and economists arguing for social justice that if the value...
Published 28 Jul, 2010 12:00am
FOR long economists have sought to devise yardsticks to quantify economic progress which can be called an intangible...
Published 21 Jul, 2010 12:00am
A FRIEND who runs a school for children from modest-income families tells me that very often she has fathers coming...
Published 14 Jul, 2010 12:00am
EDUCATION in Pakistan has again come under the spotlight. In a report released by the Brookings Institution in...
Published 07 Jul, 2010 12:00am
WHEN I landed in Toronto two weeks ago I was told that the city was in the grip of summit fever. Canada was to play...
Published 30 Jun, 2010 12:00am
PAKISTAN`S nuclear programme is once again under fire. This time the legality of its deal with China for two nuclear...
Published 23 Jun, 2010 12:00am
BP (or Beyond Petroleum as British Petroleum branded itself after its merger with Amoco in 2000) has been in the ...
Published 16 Jun, 2010 12:00am
IT was announced last week that two UN international treaties that Pakistan signed recently have been ratified. They...
Published 09 Jun, 2010 12:00am
