The slow route to hell
Let’s press the rewind button and go back in time. We see a nation, carved out amidst pools of blood and despair, whose founder vows Pakistan will be a land…
Let’s press the rewind button and go back in time. We see a nation, carved out amidst pools of blood and despair, whose founder vows Pakistan will be a land…
Schools and colleges in Pakistan are required to teach Pakistan Studies as a compulsory subject to students. This is essential as well as understandable as all nations mandate inclusion of…
Indian intellectuals claiming to be concerned for Pakistan’s Hindus accosted a Karachi journalist in Delhi recently. How was the minority community coping with the onslaught from Muslim extremists, she was…
An alarming number of people in the country hold views that can only be described as reprehensible. Many hold the view that the execution of Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman…
When I visit the graves of loved ones in Karachi, I am forced to scramble over the higgledy-piggledy final resting places of many others buried there. In a sense, our…
How much is a human life worth in Pakistan? Not more than peanuts, given the impunity with which people are being killed in this benighted country of ours. The state’s…
Brushing aside the recent political turmoil in Pakistan, Germany has stepped forward to help the country in its economic spectrum. In a recently-held launching of the German Association of Trade…
A Popular qawwal from Lucknow was invited to perform in Lahore, or so goes the apocryphal story I heard from a wit in Mumbai. On his first day at the…
How does Narendra Modi’s lofty slogan Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikaas (inclusion and development for all) square up with India’s social-political reality as experienced by the religious minorities? The…
Some 65 guests invited to a meal in Bangui eagerly awaited a feast of chicken bought for a song in the market, but soon many were in agony because the…