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Tough choice awaits

HAVING returned from a four-year, self-imposed exile, the path to power for PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif may appear paved but it is also true that within the next few months…

Resume of a doer

PML-N's sympathizers spent all of Thursday – July 13 – on social media reminding us about a most significant event in the party’s history. Exactly five years ago, on July…

She kept the torch aflame

History has an inscrutable way of recognizing great souls, even if they are ignored in their own times. Those who serve humanity in one way or another, those who dedicate…

The enlightenment of Waris Mir – Part II

Waris Mir pointed out in his writings that as long as Muslim societies used rationality and reason, they were paramount, and as soon as they embraced irrational thinking and worked…

On being called a traitor

In an ironic turn of events, the Sindh Assembly paid a historic tribute to the late Prof Waris Mir on June 15. The resolution condemned the remarks of Punjab’s Information…

An Officer And A Gentleman

An officer and a gentleman

I was walking towards the School of Physical Fitness (SPF) run by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), along with my uncle who coached the PAF hockey team there when I…

Asma Jahangir, My Fearless Friend

Asma Jahangir, my fearless friend

It is hard to find a measure of Asma Jahangir’s greatness. She was a brilliant intellectual, a superb humanist, a great political leader, an epitome of kindness, a personification of…

Haunted By A Distant Past

Haunted by a distant past

There was a joke doing the rounds on social media wherein it was said that a Pakistan offshore account holders’ convention was being organised this week at one of London’s…

Trail Of Hidden Wealth

Trail of hidden wealth

The members of 'House of Sharifs', who are facing allegations of tax avoidance, flight of capital, money laundering and corruption in the wake of the Panama Papers, claim "we have…

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