Khalid Saleem

IT is becoming something of a habit for our intelligentsia to label this blessed country as ‘young’ – ‘young’ that is in terms of the…

HOW many would recall that fateful day when the United States of America de-linked the US dollar from the gold standard – in what has…

The prevailing uncertainty in the political scenario in this blessed land is causing several eyebrows to be raised. As things get murkier and murkier, one…

OUR smart researchers have long been in the habit of subjecting poor hapless mice to odd experiments that require them (the mice that is) to…

WHATEVER happens, you cannot keep the multilateral diplomatists away from their old tricks. Their merry-go-rounds continue as always; only the venues are different but invariably…

SEVERAL years back, one had taken the liberty to draw up a ‘foreign policy wish list’, in the fond hope that the government would be…

WHAT with the pandemics of all kinds having got the world by the throat, the season of elections is upon us. Pick up the daily…

IT is heart-warming that in a world, in which human values – what to talk of human life – have lost all sanctity; there exist…

THE proverbial man-in-the-street is learning to scrape through the hard way. Whether or not he comes through unscathed or even survives the exercise is the…

MOST tales one comes across these days are fishy. Some, to be sure, are more fishy than others, but fishy nevertheless. One was looking through…