Our brave shaheens
Today, I would like to tell you about some of the great deeds of our air force heroes. They have served Pakistan gallantly many times over, the most recent occasion…
Fear of a mysterious majority
ACCORDING to popular history, Mahatma Gandhi’s proposal to make Mohammad Ali Jinnah the first prime minister of independent India to thwart partition was opposed directly or obliquely by Jawaharlal Nehru…
Stories from Hazara
The tradition of writing historical novels in Urdu is over a century old. From Abdul Halim Sharar and Rashidul Khairi to Aslam Rahi, M Aslam, and Naseem Hijazi, there is…
Lessons from Gaza
A lesson is where there is a learning over a structured period of time; and learning a lesson is to understand something because of an unpleasant experience, where the underlying…
Current tax regime – an impediment to growth
Pakistan’s tax regime is perhaps one of the biggest impediments to economic growth. High tax rates and complexity discourage the undocumented economy to enter the tax net whilst stifling capital…
A collective loss
EVERY Sunday evening it strikes me how difficult it is to write a weekly opinion piece, especially for those of us who are not natural writers. But more than…
Stoking religious sentiments
The Indian War of Independence (or the 1857 Indian Mutiny as the British call it) did not start as a "War of Independence" by Indians against Britishers. The British East…
The feminist history of Nur Jahan
After my two columns on Kishwar Naheed and Fahmida Riaz, this article deals with Empress Nur Jahan. Why, you might ask. You will get the answer to this question at…
A plea for humanity
Myanmar is being condemned by the international community owing to its ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya. The stateless people from the country’s Rakhine State are also billed as “the world’s…
War of Independence
The 1857 War of Independence was not just a spontaneous happening but a natural culmination of a number of consistent resistance efforts going back to the battle of Plassey in…
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