Queue jumping and the great ‘I’
‘This is Rome.’ Our city is a cesspool of humanity, a place of deceit, plots and vice of every imaginable kind. Anywhere you turn you will see arrogance, stubbornness, malevolence,…
No honour in rape
On May 25 seven dacoits scaled the walls of a house in Rasulabad in Khairpur, Sindh. They robbed the family of everything they had and then raped the four women…
Only prayer of winning the war
A Picture generating optimism is emerging now that former army chief Gen Kayani’s reported procrastination is no more and the North Waziristan operation’s ground phase has been launched following weeks…
Faith and folly
Curious to a fault, I follow scientific developments and discoveries with interest. In particular, recent advances in astrophysics and quantum phenomena fascinate me. These inquiries into the birth of the…
The forgotten people
Just as the ‘Injuns’ (Indians) of America and the Amazon tribes of South America are endangered species, and preserved in ‘reservations’ aimed at keeping them alive for record and research,…
A sinister kind of silence
We live in a society that seems to have parted ways with the faculties of reason, rationality and basic humanity. These qualities are in so many ways crucial to life…
We will reap the Gaza whirlwind
Gaza is in ruins as the merciless Israeli blitz has furthered Tel Aviv’s objective of eventual annihilation of all these bothersome Arabs who have the temerity to claim the land…
For better or for verse
In a national newspaper one of our leading intellectuals and historians celebrated for popularising pro-people history by writing scores of books in Urdu has very recently penned an article against…
Article 245 and the long march
How long the march will be is what will decide how August 14 ends up for Pakistan. Million, half-a- million or less. Spread longitudinally on the narrow roads of Islamabad’s…
A shared madness
A Collective madness seems to have descended on the Muslim world in a phenomenon that history shows is not exclusively Muslim. But that’s hardly any solace. From Pakistan through Afghanistan,…
