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Ikram Sehgal

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The writer is a defence and security analyst, he is Co-Chairman Pathfinder Group, Patron-in-Chief Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) and the Vice Chairman Board of Management Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Institute of Nation Building).

From the Editorial Desk (Feb-2018)

Dear Readers, Counted among the handful of larger-than-life personalities in Pakistan, the late Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan had reached a pinnacle of Success in...

Elections 2018

Squabbling and endlessly bickering on issues not of any public importance, our parliamentarians may Lamour passionately for early elections, yet not enough senators showed...

Short-Circuiting Investment

During the 1980s the shortfall between electricity generated and consumers’ demand in Karachi widened to unmanageable proportions. Rampant over-staffing compounded by excessive non-core workers,...

De-Colonizing Education in Pakistan

Established initially as institutions of higher studies, Madrasahs taught law, Islamic sciences and philosophy. Prior to the arrival of British, both religious and secular...

Stoking Religious Sentiments

The Indian War of Independence (or the 1857 Indian Mutiny as the British call it) did not start as a “War of Independence” by...

A polite ‘shut up’ call

Alongwith one of my platoons, radio operator and runner, I was hugging the bottom of a steep ridge with Marri militants firing down at...

From the Editorial Desk (Jan-2018)

Dear Readers, As the sun set for the last time in 2017, we stepped into the new year with renewed hope of better things to...

Corruption without Borders

The Nawaz Sharif episode shows that pervasive corruption has not only acquired respectability in a perverse manner in Pakistan but left to the National...
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