Category: Columns

Within the labyrinthine architecture of international politics, there exist certain conflicts whose manifestations may be temporarily suspended through diplomatic maneuvering, provisional accommodations, and carefully negotiated agreements, yet whose essential dynamics remain fundamentally unaltered. Such disputes may be rendered dormant for a season, but they cannot be genuinely resolved unless the historical grievances, ideological antagonisms, political...

Among the institutions that have indelibly shaped the economic and civic landscape of Karachi the commercial nucleus of Pakistan and one of South Asia’s most consequential metropolitan centres few possess a historical significance comparable to that of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation. Known in contemporary times as K-Electric, this entity transcends the conventional definition of...

Modern America is not only a state; it is a global idea, and today that idea is going through a deep and silent transformation. Politics is no longer limited to governments, courts, or parliaments. It now lives inside society itself—inside migration patterns, demographic shifts, media narratives, and cultural debates. What was once called “high politics”...

From Islamabad’s Sector E-7, the Margalla Hills are impossible to ignore. Resting quietly in their shadow lies Saidpur Village — a centuries-old settlement that many pass by, but few truly pause to understand. Perhaps that is how history fades: not because it disappears, but because we become too busy to notice it. On a warm...

In The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi develops one of his most important arguments in the chapter often referred to as “Pauperism and Utopia,” where he examines how early industrial society produced mass poverty on one hand and an equally powerful ideological belief on the other: the idea that a self-regulating market could organize society without...

Gaza, at this grievous historical juncture, no longer merely constitutes a geographically beleaguered enclave; rather, it has assumed the form of one of those lamentable chapters in the annals of human civilisation wherein warfare is prosecuted not solely through the overt violence of artillery, missiles, and aerial devastation, but through the far more insidious instrumentation...

On 13th May 2026, we had the privilege of participating in a Study Tour to the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), located in I-9/1, Islamabad, under the leadership of Engr. Habib Ahmad Jan, Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, International Islamic University Islamabad. This tour was a mandatory field study for the 8th-semester students as...