Throughout the entire human civilisation, it is the victors who write history. Any yet, in retrospect, the historical authenticity of the events and the accuracy of the victors’ claims have ...
With the general elections in Pakistan only a day away, we, this nation of 180 million people, need to ask some very basic questions and, at the same time, reflect, analyse and understand the ...
Let us put some simple facts on the table without bias, prejudice or partisan political affiliations. Let us be rational, logical and analytical with the core purpose of understanding what is ...
After Nelson Mandela liberated his people from the economic, political and socio-cultural tyranny and abuse of power by a megalomaniac white minority regime in South Africa in 1994, a Truth and ...
Please do not ask me the absurd question, as to what has been happening to this country called Pakistan for the last six decades or so. Obviously, this nation has been colonised by its own native ...
Those of us who have been involved academically and diligently studying political behaviour of the traditional Pakistani political actors know quite well that what these politicians say and what they ...
Note to the Readers: Several people sent me their comments on my last week’s article titled “The March 23rd Outswinger” (TheNation, March 6). Although the majority of writers wish ...
Note: several readers who reviewed my last week’s article (“Fraudulent Intentions, Deceptive Motives” published in TheNation on February 28) have asked a question: how are we going ...
It takes a certain foolish and specifically cavalier talent to live in happy denial, to slide towards the edge of a disastrous political-economic-social abyss and be perfectly nonchalant about it. Of ...
I ask myself a very simple and morally relevant question: who is a more patriotic Pakistani? A Pakistani-born national who holds dual nationality, resides overseas and has, in the last two decades, ...
“It is about time to implement the Supreme Court verdict of December 16, 2009, on NRO, the very basis of establishing the current government and the start of a new era of corruption and ...
“Gentle reader, hear Poliphilo tell of his dreams…Here you will see perfect palaces of kings,The worship of nymphs, fountains and rich banquets.The guards dance, dressed in motley, and ...
“Past precedence [in Pakistan’s political history] provides ample evidence that elections are a tool to access power and to perpetuate power under the hijab of democracy. It serves the ...
This note is addressed to Asif Ali Zardari as a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, not to the incumbent President or to the leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. It is an invitation ...
“Dr Qadri….…has firmly put himself across as the voice of Pakistan’s moral consciousness, rising to press the government for finally delivering the rights of ordinary ...
The vital question being posed for political deliberation in the above title is: will Mian Nawaz Sharif be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan?No. he will not. That is the simple answer.Yes, he could ...
Image-makers are at work these days in Pakistan with absolute tenacity. In the long run, they might have no substantive impact on Pakistan’s future political landscape, but right now, their ...
Above and beyond all other aspects and religious-spiritual dimensions, Karbala was a monumental human tragedy. And tragedies create physical pain, emotional-sentimental anguish, scars on the human ...
As a student and Professor of Mass Communication, Media and Politics, a fundamental factor that has been resilient in my philosophical and intellectual discovery has been the importance of human ...
November 5, 2012, was an important day for the Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, as he placed his conceptual manuscript and cognisant vision of a future reformist Pakistan in front of his fellow ...
“If you have built castles in the air,Your work need not be lost:That is where they should be.Now put the foundations under them.”–Henry David Thoreau Let the Generals be tried in a ...
Brave, faithful and committed to national cultural renaissance, the Afghan people have been fighting foreign occupations in modern history for far too long. In fact, an entire young generation of ...
Ibn Khaldun, the 14th century Arab historian and sociologist, wrote extensively on the concept of sociological development within a state apparatus and its intrinsic relationship with good ...
Rationality and logic are the tools that assist the analysis of human behaviour to comprehend why people act in certain ways and what their motives and intentions are. When logic and rationality are ...
Indeed, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf’s “peace march” to Waziristan took the country by storm. It was a vivid mirror-image reflection of the “tsunami” that Imran Khan has ...
Clive Stafford Smith, Director of Reprieve, in a recent column, Drones lead the West’s new terror campaign, opined the following: “CIA’s predators are visiting upon innocent ...
In my Radio Pakistan Islamabad interview on September 18 pertaining to the growing unrest and public protests all over Pakistan due to the blasphemous movie, Innocence of Muslims, I had suggested ...
A folktale in the villages of Punjab goes as follows: a jackal passing a village accidentally ran through a garment dyer’s workshop and got covered with blue dye. When the jackal reached the ...
An auto mechanic took my car for repairs with the promise to return it in three days. He brought it back after 10 days with inflated charges (over what was agreed) and fitted with fake parts. Now, we ...
“The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die.” ~ Martin Luther KingThe question is: is Pakistan facing an eventual demise because we see the truth and do not ...
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 15, 2013, 6:10 pmUK police to take action on Altaf's speech: Thomson
May 16, 2013PTI-led KPK coalition govt worked out
May 19, 2013, 7:37 pmAltaf Hussain slams PTI leader's murder
May 20, 2013, 12:14 pmPTI will hold protest demo in Karachi on Monday: Imran
May 15, 2013Nawaz lays healing hand on Imran
May 16, 2013Altaf’s speech on Scotland Yard’s radar
