English Columnists
Another failed coup by Asif Ezdi
1 March, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010 Asif Ezdi The writer is a former member of the Foreign Service Under normal conditions, the appointment of Khwaja Sharif to the Supreme Court and of Saqib Nisar as chief justice of the Lahore High Court would hardly have produced a stir. Both judges possess the requisite qualifications and enjoy a [...]
Dissenting note Education for all by Dr Masooda Bano
1 March, 2010Monday, March 01, 2010 Dr Masooda Bano The recently launched Global Monitoring Report (GMR) – the annual report produced by UNESCO to evaluate the status of education for all across the world – has again pushed the governments in developing countries and the western donor countries to make higher financial allocations to ensure quality education [...]
Capital crown by Adnan Rehmat
1 January, 2010January 10th by Adnan Rehmat. Taking a close look at a city is like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. Take a close look at Islamabad in all its pompous perplexity and clinical contradictions and not much popular ownership is apparent. Not that it prevents it from boasting a [...]
Noble Salam by Adnan Rehmat
1 February, 2009Dr Abdus Salam is mainly known for three things – his nationality, his religion and that he won the prestigious Nobel Prize, albeit in the reverse order. What is generally not known about him is that he refused to surrender the nationality of a country that disowned him (Pakistan) and become an Italian citizen even [...]
Judgement Day by Adnan Rehmat
1 February, 2009Elected governments in Pakistan are rarely ousted by voters (Musharraf and Shujaat’s PML-Q being the only such specimen). More often than not this task is undertaken with relish by the military through armed coups. Or by one elected government against another through Governor Rule, the PPP turning this into an art form, having employed this [...]
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