India and Pakistan: The fault is not in our stars
The fault, dear Brutus, Cassius says in ShakespearesJulius Caesar, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Years and years of Aman …
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The fatwas that can change Pakistan's blasphemy narrative
Pakistan's blasphemy law continues to sustain popularity and credence, with death being considered not only the most appropriate r…
The fatwas that can change Pakistan's blasphemy narrative
Pakistan's blasphemy law continues to sustain popularity and credence, with death being considered not only the most appropriate r…
The 'other' factors reshaping Pakistan's war on terror
Over 15 days have passed since the gruesome Peshawar carnage shook up the entire country. The atmosphere is still somber as a flur…
Abul Ala Maududi: An existentialist history
To most Pakistanis and to those who have been associated with various Islamic political outfits in countries like Egypt, Indonesia…
What Pakistani leaders can learn from the world's 'poorest' president
From Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, political leadership in Pakistan has traditionally been the…
Woman of the year: The Pakistani mother
It is an unenviable exercise, to write about one tragedy in the midst of another. As Pakistanis pick up the pieces from Peshawar, …
Woman of the year: The Pakistani mother
It is an unenviable exercise, to write about one tragedy in the midst of another. As Pakistanis pick up the pieces from Peshawar, …
The deleted bits from Fatima Jinnah's 'My Brother'
The sub-continent's histories may well be one of the most misled and misinterpreted ones in the world. Part of the reason for that…
The real war is the war of narrative
The closer you want to get to eradicating the menace of terrorism, the bigger this menace seems to get. For the past week, followi…
