Thirty years after mobs demolished a historic mosque in Ayodhya, triggering a wave of sectarian bloodshed that saw thousands killed, fundamentalist Indian Hindu groups are eyeing other Muslim sites —…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit to the Taj Mahal this week was yet another indignity the legendary monument of eternal love had to endure. Netanyahu and his wife Sara,…
The Taj Mahal was the nub of the argument in a recent opinion piece by Dr Nadeem ul Haque on the Planning Commission: ‘Should we have a planning commission?’ —…
Of course, this is an absurd question. How on earth could the Taj Mahal ‘be Pakistani’ and claim a nationality which was only imagined 400 years after the mausoleum was…
Stars and Birds: Last week, our group of university students walked towards Nasir Bagh as the first stop in our tour of Mall Road. As I took a look around…
State and society are two distinct institutions. Eroding this distinction opens the doors to state intervention in personal, family and social relations and to loss of individual rights and protection…
Ratan Naval Tata, the great visionary businessman of modern history, has passed away at the age of 88. People of every religion and nationality have shed tears in his loving…
Frankly, it’s unbelievable (especially to those who don’t live in either country) that Pakistan and India – countries with a collective population of approximately 1.7 billion and with tens of…
The zinc covering the roofs of central Paris has given the French capital’s skyline its distinctive grey hue for almost two centuries. Now the roofs and the workers who create…
IT’S a given that foreign policies of nations represent their national circumstances. Circumstances change, policies change. They changed for Pakistan from Jinnah to Bhutto to Zia. Likewise, the Nehruvian state…
