After Christchurch
MY daughter and I go to the mosque for Friday prayers as a regular practice. My experience in Canada is that practising Muslims might not go to a mosque to…
Gamification of violence
ON Aug 28, police station Banr in Swat came under a militant attack in which one policeman lost his life and two others were wounded. Investigations revealed that a tech-savvy…
Increased pressure
NEW ZEALAND’S PM Jacinda Ardern last week resigned from her post, conceding she didn’t have ‘enough in the tank’ to continue. The BBC covered this news with an absurdly sexist…
A league of her own
An emotional and teary eyed Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, caught the world by surprise when she announced her resignation, after leading her nation for nearly six…
The Buffalo massacre
Challenging racist violence demands an understanding of our true history. Instead, a vocal minority in our country are demanding not gun bans but book bans, trying to suppress the teaching…
The cycle of leadership
Many of us in Pakistan wonder when we will have a political leader we can be proud of and follow with some degree of true admiration. At the current time,…
Child killers
IT’S not easy to fathom a mindset wherein the second-deadliest school massacre in a nation’s history triggers the reaction that it would be a great idea, a couple of days…
‘Whitejahideen’
ON March 19, 2019, Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old white man from Australia murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in what is known as the Christchurch mosque massacre. Brenton was an avowed white…
‘Partnering for unity, justice and development’
Pakistan is going to host the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) Summit on 22-23 March 2022 under the theme of ‘Partnering for unity, justice and development’. After hosting the 17th…
Far-right ideas
There are two themes that have taken centre stage in the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election. One is a naked nationalism and the fear of…
