Federal funding for universities
UNIVERSITIES in Pakistan are again in the news — once again for the wrong reasons. The issue this time is that the federal government has decided to stop giving annual…
Fighting terrorism
TERRORISM is as old as war, which means as ancient as the first traces of organised human community. In the middle of the last century, Sindh suffered the ravages of…
The precarious lives of politicians
FORMER prime minister Imran Khan was shot in the leg during an assassination attempt last week while participating in the long march. He survived. But Pakistani politicians seldom survive assassination attempts, which…
Local governments
SPEAKING to the First Constituent Assembly in 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah outlined several duties for the government of Pakistan: maintain law and order, root out corruption, act against black…
Decades of despair
“PROMPT and drastic measures are necessary to save Pakistan from virtual bankruptcy; but our rulers seem to be content with obtaining foreign gifts to feed the people and relying on…
Fear of a mysterious majority
ACCORDING to popular history, Mahatma Gandhi’s proposal to make Mohammad Ali Jinnah the first prime minister of independent India to thwart partition was opposed directly or obliquely by Jawaharlal Nehru…
If a horse befriends the grass
THERE’s talk of peace between India and Pakistan, which should be welcomed with a tight embrace by both sides and by the world at large. If true, the move will…
The plight of the minorities
August 11, 2024 was ‘celebrated’ as Minorities Day, as has been the custom now since 2009. The date, August 11, was chosen to mark Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s address to…
The roots of Pakistan
The lived experience of Muslims participating and in some places leading the near impromptu uprising in 1857 against the British in the Subcontinent reflected Muslim passion, anger, reactiveness, assertion, confidence…
Pakistan’s addiction to borrowed money
Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his speech at Ziarat, Balochistan, in 1948 stated that: “We Musalmans in general and young men in particular, do not know…
