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…
Messiah in our midst
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 real rulers of Pakistan
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…
The world of the one percent
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…
A battle of ideas
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…
Trying to contaminate the courts
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…
Engineering extremism
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,…
A sign of the times
“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…
