The works of Jamal Abro
The Sindhi short story is nearly a century old now. In the early decades of the 20th century, writers such as Mirza Qaleech Baig, Lalchand Amardinomal, and Jethmal Parsram started…
Climate and the religious lens
The condition of Pakistani cities shows that we are suffering from an intellectual, professional and moral crisis. There is a sense that the existing government institutions and people cannot be…
Fatima Jinnah: An enduring legacy
Over the decades a good deal has been written on. Fatima Jinnah's contribution to national politics. The focus of most writings on and about her are almost exclusively on how…
Remarkable personalities
It is not difficult to find good books. If not available in our own language, one can find translations from other languages. However, the reading culture nosedived with the advent…
Borders and martyrs
On June 14, Major Ali Jawad Changezi, a proud soldier of the Pakistan Army, was martyred guarding a border that his great grandparents had crossed more than a century ago.…
Flogging a dead horse
The recent closure and subsequent reopening of the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan must be seen in the wider of context of the two neighbours’ historical tensions over…
For a stable Afghanistan
Pak-Afghan relations have never been cordial. There is a long history of mutual mistrust, suspicion and accusations of interference in internal affairs. How did this mistrust develop? Most of the…
The fruits of democracy
Islamabad diary Zardari and cohorts gave us democratic continuity and we all went wild and said what a wonderful thing it was. Pakistan had turned a corner and the future…
Buying peace at the grocery
Fellow peace campaigners on both sides of the border would probably disagree with me, but I do believe firmly that neither reviving cricket ties nor boosting bilateral trade is the…
Ghani’s test’
Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the president of Afghanistan, will be paying his first visit to Pakistan in the next few days. This will be his second visit to a neighbouring…
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