Freedom’s choice for Afghans: Over the wall or through the desert
Amid a roar of engines and clouds of dust, Sattar Amiri clambers into a pickup truck with his wife and infant son in a remote Afghan frontier town, ready for…
Freedom Fries 2.0
THERE’S no fever quite like war fever; when it rises, all becomes clear: it’s us vs them, black vs white, good vs evil, beef nihari vs tofu steaks. I’m sure you’ve gotten…
Buying your path to freedom
“I can’t believe they can get away with this. I’m toast, right? They’re going to drag me into this prison’s courtyard and stone me to death, aren’t they?,” said Raymond…
Curbing freedom?
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s support for a tough new law to curb so-called ‘fake news’ on social media platforms is neither smart nor progressive. It is hardly surprising that within…
9/11: Fear of freedom
The humanity at large has been suffering from fear of freedom since the ghastly attack on twin towers of New York on September 9, 2001. The incident that took place…
Freedom of speech
‘If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter,’ said George Washington. Normative (liberal and religious) and empirical…
One-sided freedom
Freedom has become a buzzword. Freedom has become a refuge. Freedom has become a license to cross boundaries. Freedom is endangering freedom. Man is born to be free. True. But…
Post-freedom
STATE founders are towering figures who play the key role in freeing a state. While their founding roles are well-studied, their post-freedom roles in ensuring their state’s long-term progress are…
World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2021 passed as World Press Freedom Day in relative quietude given the damper on all aspects of life wrought by the Covid pandemic (May Day suffering the same…
March for freedom
FREEDOM is an extremely powerful idea, glorified by those who want it, reviled by those who want to keep status quo intact. We Pakistanis have a particular affinity with the…
