Human bombs
THE grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al Sheikh, recently termed suicide bombers as `criminals` who will go to `hell`. In the 1980s, suicide attacks were…
Female Students Of Riphah University Wins Best Women, Ambassador Award
A team of female students from Faculty of Computing of Riphah International University (WISH Campus) Islamabad has won Best Women and Ambassador Award in CREAT'17 event, held at Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied…
RIPHA students won award
A Team of female students from Faculty of Computing of Riphah International University (WISH Campus) Islamabad has won Best Women and Ambassador Award in CREAT’17 event, held at Pakistan Institute…
Hassles of higher education
Oh, what a pleasure it was to listen to Dr Tariq Banuri. The new chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) was invited to a reception on June 4 by…
A tale of two visions
Imagine a face-to-face confrontation between Asma Jahangir and Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in a serious discussion on Pakistan’s national sense of direction and on what we have made of our…
The diaspora writes home
For the past 34 years, Sindhis who live in North America have formed an active platform called the Sindhi Association of North America (SANA), which now has close to 2,000…
Nawaz 3.0
Nawaz Sharif wants a third incarnation in a country where one life is too many for an elected prime minister. In his third life, he wants to change the rules…
Crisis of command
Imran Khan, the new prime minister of Pakistan, must already have found out that power comes with many burdens. He witnessed this during his election as the PM in parliament…
The old man’s Pakistan
“Neutrality and impartiality dominate the intellectual discourse of societies in absolute despair and disarray and I abhor these words to the core of my heart,” an emaciated old man says…
Religious and political books
It is the sacred month of Ramazan and we have entered the second phase leading towards its completion. Many books have been published on religious matters and I would like…
