Opinion

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:42 PM

France’s citizenship test

Since last November’s brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, a furious debate has been raging in France over whether to revoke the citizenship of those...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:26 PM

The end of globalisation?

China has just announced that last year, for the first time since it began opening up its economy to the world at the end of the 1970s, exports declined on...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:03 PM

Ted Cruz keeps trying to solve Trump

No Republican presidential candidate in advance of 2015 read the primary electorate as shrewdly as Senator Ted Cruz, or displayed the capacity and...

Friday 11/March/2016 15:43 PM

Rethinking Urdu’s hegemony in Pakistan

The status of Urdu became a marker for Muslim identity in the pre-partition Indian subcontinent, and helped legitimise the Two-Nation Theory, based on which...

Friday 11/March/2016 15:22 PM

Empty promises and dead children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy...

Thursday 10/March/2016 13:38 PM

So to speak: Travelling stress

You would think that in this modern era of jet engine technology, travelling would be full of fun. It is not and it is increasingly becoming stressful and...