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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

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Consumerism and economic implications

It may seem outré: something in our psycho-historical and mental configuration places us in the sphere of an epicurean, consumerist society, public...

25.04.2024 40

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Is IMF dispensable?

The present predicament may be summarised in the following way. The government is impoverished; one witnesses a plutocratic, self-flagellating society...

01.04.2024 50

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The Flying Man, Gaza and Salladin

The title of this script appears phantasmagoric. But when unraveled, a distinct, underlying thread becomes lucid from the apparent palaver. ...

20.03.2024 20

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

2024 Elections: feudalism continues its reign

According to a Geo-Jang Election Cell report, during the 2024 elections, out of 266 directly elected National Assembly seats (60 more are reserved for...

10.03.2024 30

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The present predicament and takeaways

T he present portrays a unique binary in our national socio-political evolution, rare in more than one way: on the one hand are witnessed extreme...

11.02.2024 10

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Bacha Khan: restitution and expiation

Human history seems janus faced: a lifeless, moribund chronicle of events and facts or a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom, if one learns from it....

29.01.2024 40

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The peril haunting America

D uring an infamous 1939 speech, Hitler dehumanised Jews by calling them vermins: “This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies,”...

07.12.2023 40

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The insidious threat to democracy

C ivilian and non-democratic governments have had a long interplay during our political history. Democracy evolves slowly, ensuing from...

26.11.2023 90

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Private gain and public good; illegality and immorality

We decry widespread presence of corruption. Evasion of taxes, utility bills and other public levies are excoriated, yet tolerated. Our consciences...

17.11.2023 60

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Expulsion or repatriation

Salaar is packing his household bric a bac for a parlous journey across Spin Boldak into an Afghanistan from which he hails but which he has never...

06.11.2023 30

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The Hashtnagri French fryer

On his daily evening walks in the much improved and developed Capt Kernal Sher Khan Shaheed army stadium, located on the North Circular Road in...

24.10.2023 10

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Have chains been broken to unleash terror in Pakistan?

More than 60 persons have died in the latest suicide bombings in Mastung and Hangu. These follow the deadly killings of more than 100 in the January...

08.10.2023 40

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Subsidies: equaliser, immiserator or collusive larceny?

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva to Caretaker Prime Minister in New York on 20 September 2023: “Pakistan must tax the rich to provide relief to the...

27.09.2023 20

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Attarn

The attarn dance is a prominent feature of the Pashtoon culture with affiliations to both festivity and war. According to some accounts its roots go...

18.09.2023 30

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

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