State against minorities
The concept of a Muslim state vis-à-vis its minorities, as envisaged by those that oversaw the creation of Pakistan and the members of the first Constituent Assembly, is hardly understood…
Jinnah was pragmatic and down-to-earth all the time
In one respect, the epoch that ended with the birth of two nations on August 14-15, 1947, in South Asia, was the most remarkable in Indian history. It had produced…
Our very own ‘Watergate’?
While Pakistan is in the grip of its worst energy crisis since its inception in 1947, coincidentally, or perhaps by design, the country is also in the grip of a…
Economic constraints
There is a general consensus within and outside the country that the economy of Pakistan has never been in such a bad shape since its inception in 1947. Pakistan has…
A journey to Waziristan
The painful phase through which Waziristan is going these days has no parallel in history since it joined the newly created state of Pakistan in 1947. All trouble in the…
After the march
Name: Mary Ann Wright, Born: 1947 in Arkansas, Former occupation: US Military and State Department, Present occupation: thorn-in-chief in the side of US militarists. After spending over 20 years in…
When power outstrips ability
The eloquence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the approach of the midnight hour of Aug 15, 1947 was so magnificent that it has overwhelmed the contributions of other great Indians to…
Quaid was not a secular person
After the 64 years of the creation of Pakistan on Thursday, August 11, 2011, Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and Pakistan Movement Workers’ Trust jointly organized the sitting on the same topic i-e-:…
Secular or Islamist?
The controversy about Jinnah’s vision for Pakistan rages on. Did Jinnah want a secular or a Sharia state? The two sides buttress their arguments by quoting his words selectively. Liberals…
The economic journey
According to a top secret memorandum of the British chiefs of staff dated July 1947: “The area of [West] Pakistan is strategically the most important in the continent of India…
