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…
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…
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…
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…
We have a messiah in our midst: the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Honourable Justice Saqib Nisar. In an amazingly insightful interview with Javed Chaudhry, reproduced partly…
The government’s recent decision to privatise PIA and Pakistan Steel Mills raises an important question about the style of governance adopted by different parties and their leaders and creates doubts…
Approximately 88 percent of the wealth created last year went to the one percent rich as opposed to half the world’s poor (3.7 billion people), who saw no increase in…
Hate speech and mob justice has become so common in Pakistan that we often question ourselves in bewilderment about what went wrong with us. One answer that usually comes across…
When I speak to lawyers about Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, in full confidence and completely privately, they rave about him. He is widely known to be one of the brightest…
Within our own country as well as beyond, there has been much focus on madressahs or seminaries promoting extremism, in some cases violence too, through their teachings and philosophy. However,…
“We have been turned into a frightened society; democratic values and rule of law are not rooted firmly in our collective consciousness; [and the] education system promotes extremism. In such…