Tag: Umair Javed

PAKISTAN is a one-sport nation, and has been for the better part of five decades. Given its sheer population, underachievement across all other sports is extremely stark. Hockey languishes outside … Read More

WHAT compels a mob to burn someone to death? What explains such amplified levels of anger that an accusation against some person from a marginalised group leads to a lynching? … Read More

LAST week, the Punjab Assembly hastily passed a defamation bill, despite grave concerns raised by journalist unions and rights bodies, as well as opposition legislators. The bill, which now only … Read More

SLOWLY but surely, the signs of a global political and cultural realignment are becoming apparent. Several commentators trace the origins of this realignment to events of the last two and … Read More

WHILE service delivery in Pakistan has rarely been carried out with the explicit intention of pro-poor redistribution, no domain exemplifies this trend more than urban development. If, periodically, there is … Read More

IT is pointless to pontificate on most of the voting numbers from this election, given the large discrepancies being reported. Make-believe Form-47s cast a shadow on the legitimacy of the … Read More

RECENT conversations about the upcoming election with university students reflect various degrees of disillusionment and despondency. For many, voting in an election tarred by a compromised pre-election phase, and an … Read More

NAWAZ Sharif was ousted from the Prime Minister’s Office by a dubious Supreme Court decision on July 28, 2017. He left the country on Nov 19, 2019. Six years have … Read More

THERE is an enduring debate on the degree to which politics reflects a countrys societal trends. Some analysts argue that politics usually reflects deep divides or cleavages found in society, … Read More

HISTORIANS of South Asia have spent significant time and energy trying to understand the degree to which independence from the British actually constituted any sort of meaningful change. Continuities can … Read More