Petty party politics, vested interests, political extremism and a colonial legacy all have resulted in the transformation of our ruling elites into leeches plundering public money. In fact, this has come to characterize our national politics. The assemblies in Pakistan are fast becoming a battleground thanks to political intolerance that has thrived under the watchful […]
We often see our so-called political leaders making tall claims: elites proclaiming that Pakistan is – or was meant to be – a welfare state. But as far as the underprivileged working classes are concerned, they have yet not been acknowledged as deserving a place under that much proclaimed one-umbrella state. A welfare states guarantees […]
Dr Joseph Needham (1900-1995) was a brilliant British biochemist who had obtained a doctorate from Cambridge University in 1925, specializing in embryology and morphogenesis. Later, Dr. Needham developed an interest in China, and after visiting that country several times, he wrote his mammoth book Science and Civilization in China in 24 volumes (see Simon Winchester’s […]