History is repeating itself in Kiev, and the West can take no pride in its role I have fond memories of covering Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004, despite having to stand in sub-zero temperatures for hours on end. For those of us in Kiev’s Independence Square, there was a sense that history was being made. The star of the show ... Read More »
Information is soft power. This is what we tell students in the classrooms. But it does turn out to be a lethal power in this environment as modern technology has given this tool more power than we had thought off or even anticipated just a few decades ago. Readers will be surprised to know that more than 1,000 TV stations ... Read More »
In 2009, every man, woman and child in Pakistan was indebted to the tune of Rs46,000. In 2011, every man, woman and child in Pakistan was indebted to the tune of Rs61,000. As of the last day of 2013, every Pakistani man, woman and child carried a debt burden of Rs100,000. Lo and behold, between June 2013 and September 2013, ... Read More »
Reading about the two Great Wars of the last century and the staggering scale of casualties, one wonders how the world could have allowed human slaughter at such an epic scale to go on for so long. The combined toll of the two World Wars exceeded a horrific hundred million. Millions more died later – of injuries, disease and hunger. ... Read More »
Everything from terrorism to food insecurity has been labelled as a threat to democracy and stability at one time or another. Inequality between the rich and poor has always been near the top of this list and this point has been reiterated in a report released by Oxfam during the proceedings of the World Economic Forum. It is a staggering ... Read More »
The longer the legacy of the 2008-2009 crisis continues to bite, the greater the opportunities could be for the centre left to benefit US President Barack Obama will use his State-of-the-Union address on Tuesday to make economic inequality central to his agenda for 2014. Fifty years on, from Lyndon Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’, the White House believes this core fairness ... Read More »
We are in a state of war, even if Punjab and the national leadership from Punjab find it excruciatingly difficult to recognise this reality. From 1947 onwards the land of the sacred rivers didn’t prove itself very good at nation-building. Now with a different set of problems facing the country it is proving even less good at nation-saving. The forces ... Read More »
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