Murad Moosa Khan

Articles by Murad Moosa Khan

Curing the cause

Health August 21, 2026

β€œPsychological knowledge should put itself at the service of society. Where the wellness of the few does not depend on the suffering of the rest. Where the achievements of some do not require the ne...

Slow and steady healing

Health June 6, 2026

β€œThe good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease” β€” Sir William Osler (1849-1919) IN 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the β€˜slow food’ movement...

Moral failure

Business May 20, 2026

β€œTo be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace” β€” Confucius I OFTEN wonder that if I ever come to be awarded one of Pakistan’s civil honours (not that I deem myself worthy of o...

Power of the powerless

News May 2, 2026

β€œWhen the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty” β€” Thomas Jefferson VÁCLAV Havel (1936-2011) has been described as a β€œCzech stat...

Mental health in a broken world

Health January 12, 2026

β€œThe stark reality for the vast majority of people in the non-Western world, transcending everything, is poverty. Currently one quarter of the global population lives in near destitution and 3.5 mil...

Psychology of poverty

Health December 24, 2025

β€œPoverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. β€” John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around...