Taming the killing fields
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor Our country has turned into a killing field. Death comes everywhere, too easily...

We know the answers, but will they matter?
The elections are over. Some parties have lost and some have won. However, there were many irregularities: significant institutions failed to ensure a...

Death and dying in Karachi
There are no vultures in Karachi, at least not the kind that circle in the sky, flapping and gliding, waiting for an opportunity to scavenge below. Th...

All-weather friends
Visiting China is a never-ending revelation; the amazing 7.7 percent growth rate in a sluggish global economy is considered ‘disappointing there. Of ...

The dilemma of being right
“You may be put to trouble not because you are doing anything wrong but because you are doing right”. These are the prophetic words that Quaid-e-Azam ...

Memories of a city
Here we come to the heart of the matter: I ve never left Istanbul – never left the houses, streets and neighbourhoods of my childhood. Although I ve l...