Muslims face frugal Ramazan as Ukraine war drives up food prices
Russia’s Ukraine invasion, which has already exacerbated food woes in parts of Africa and the Middle East, is marring preparations for the holy month of Ramadan and forcing a turn…
Population census 2017
The massive undertaking of the Population Census has finally been completed after a big gap of nineteen years. Thanks are due to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, to the hundreds…
The population bomb
Pakistan is facing a huge problem of population explosion, destroying almost all sorts of economic planning. No government has taken this issue seriously despite the negative consequences. This exponential population…
Divided Muslims
SINCE the annexation of India-held Kashmir in August, Pakistan has had to realise that it lacks the resources — diplomatic, economic, legal or otherwise — to respond to India’s unilateral…
Iqbal and Muslim nationalism
All said and done, Iqbal's core contribution to Muslim regeneration lay in giving his people an idea, something to live and die for. In tandem, it also lay in fostering…
Indian media and the war on Muslims
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages, said Spiro Agnew. I wonder what the late US vice president would have thought of Indian media, especially…
Fury grows after protest deaths in Indian Muslim neighbourhood
Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the…
Muslim women in Congress
In the November 2018 elections, large numbers of women and minorities were elected to the US Congress. Among them are the first two Muslim women, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and…
The population bomb
Family planning is not only a fundamental human right that empowers individuals – especially women and girls – and helps save the lives of women and newborns, but it is…
The population challenge
Thomas L Friedman has written a book in which he says: “In the world that is getting hot, flat and crowded, the task of creating the tools, systems, energy resources,…
