A break with the past
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hit the nail on the head when in his address at an event to mark the Hindu festival of Holi, he denounced a forced change of…
Democracy, cynicism and history
There are few concepts in modern political thought that have generated as much popular enthusiasm as the concept of democracy. In Pakistan as well, the desire for a more just…
Towards Beijing consensus
In his 2017 New Year address, President Xi Jinping stressed that Chinese people have long believed that "the world is a commonwealth". Chinese people not only hope to live better…
Remembering the fifth of July
The fifth of July brings to our mind the reactionary military coup General Ziaul Haq engineered, which reshaped Pakistan’s ideological, social, cultural and strategic landscape. No any other regime influenced…
The Qandeel Baloch murder
A young woman was murdered by her brother because he did not like her Facebook posts. If we find it possible to qualify our horror at a murder so foul,…
Turangzai vs the Raj
In one of my previous articles, titled ‘Frontier and resistance’, published in these pages I focused on the armed resistance in the frontier where a number of freedom fighters, including…
Missing bloggers and absent wisdom
Several days past the disappearance of five bloggers – one of whom is said to be a polio patient – there is no confirmed news about their whereabouts. There are…
The power of disruptive ideas
Disruption is a notion that has transformed the conventional philosophical wisdom of linearity of critical discourses of modernity. The linear and non-cyclical progression of human consciousness in a Hegelian framework…
A dangerous approach
Are we still too naive to determine our enemy? Certainly not, but only if we have common sense and we keep our eyes wide open. We must also keep in…
Looking back at the Cultural Revolution
The 50th anniversary of the launching of the Cultural Revolution by Mao Tse Tung on May 16, 1966 passed this year unmarked in China. The media was silent and there…
