Indian insecurities
“Jis khait se dehqaan ko muyassar nahin rozi Uss khait ke har khosha-i-gandum ko jalla do” PAKISTAN routinely claims Allama Iqbal as a founding father and its national poet, but…
Indian, Muslim and female
Amid all the hubbub over talks between India and Pakistan, news emerged last week about a survey done by the Indian Muslim women’s rights organisation Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA).…
The cardinal principle of British Raj — I
To be a gentleman officer two trades are necessary – a good tailor and a good barber”. Boris Johnson, please take note. Pakistan, from 1957 to 1969, was built by…
Britain’s theft
After the British Raj took over in 1847, colonisers added a special new twist to the tax-and-buy system. As the East India Company’s monopoly broke down, Indian producers were allowed…
Countering terror — beyond labels
During the past few weeks, terrorists affiliated with the TTP), Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have been referred to by Pakistani authorities as Khawarij. This term,…
The masses bringing change?
THE media is riveted to the news that the Congress party will elect a new president in October, one who will not be from the Nehru-Gandhi family. So what will…
Remembering the Ashura
As the late afternoon scorching sun across Karbala began to sink more than 1300 years ago, one of the last acts of Imam Hussain (a.s) on ‘Ashura’ deepened the impact…
How democracy was derailed — Part – III
As we saw in the previous article in this series (April 28), between the Tamizuddin judgment and the advice rendered under Special Reference No 1, the federal court led by…
India’s insurgent strongholds on road to democracy?
A narrow winding road through an untamed forest has proven a blow to a decades-old Maoist rebellion that is one of India’s longest and deadliest insurgencies. As the world’s biggest…
Paint it saffron?
Last month, India held state elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram and Rajasthan, and the results show that the BJP still enjoys majority in most parts of the country.…
