Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

For generations we have perfected the art of assigning blame. When things go wrong, when institutions fail, when services falter, when livelihoods are lost, the…

THE move from youth to adulthood always begins with a question of direction. For centuries, this direction was relatively simple. A son inherited his father’s…

A nation does not fall when its buildings crumble or its coffers empty, it falls when its classrooms decay, when curiosity dies in silence, and…

HISTORY remembers leaders less for the wealth they displayed than for the symbols they chose to embody. Leadership, at its core, is a kind of…

EVERY child enters the world carrying within them a spark of infinite possibility. A first smile, a first step, a first word, these are not…

THERE is a particular scent that hangs in the air of a place that has been left behind by time. It is the scent of…

FLOODS have ceased to be rare disasters, they have become a relentless cycle of loss and displacement, striking with increasing intensity each year. For millions…

THERE are moments when history ceases to whisper and instead thunders with destiny. The signing of the Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Mutual Defence Pact is such a…

EVERY season brings with it warnings that most of us have grown used to dismissing. We are told the heat will be unbearable, that the…

The gravest danger to a nation is not always the armies at its gates, but the betrayal that festers within. When men who are granted…