Rashid Ahmed Mughal

HUMAN beings have many shortcomings. No human being is perfect- all are fallible, some to a lesser degree and some go too high. Of all…

CAN any one buy happiness? Can any one buy joyful time to be remembered as long as one is alive? Some say money can buy…

WHILE travelling last week on a long flight from the USA to the UAE, I had a chance to meet a young beautiful Ukrainian lady…

RAPID development in science and technology during the last twenty years has brought about wonderful — sometimes unbelievable and amazing — advancements in our lives,…

IN the 19th century, the American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria…

AMERICAN print and electronic media are currently inundated with reports of former President Donald Trump following his conviction as a criminal. He has launched a…

THE world’s most dangerous flashpoint, Israel and Palestine, has been at war again for over eight months. Every time the border shootings, bomb explosions, and…

IF someone willingly and deliberately wishes to take a ride in a boat, knowing it has multiple holes and heads to the high sea, we…

STEPHEN Cohen, Doyen of South East Asia wrote in 2002, that Pakistan, as a State has been failing for many years and the collapse of…

WE, in Pakistan, have perhaps got used to crisis, debacles, rough and tough times- both politically and economically. Seldom have we seen a patch of…