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The Slow Route To Hell

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…

How Are The Hindus Facing Hindutva?

How are the Hindus facing Hindutva?

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…

Turning A Wrong Into A Right

Turning a wrong into a right

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…

Death As A Metaphor

Death as a metaphor

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…

Worth Of A Life

Worth of a life

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…

Gate-Pakistan

Gate-Pakistan

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…

BJP And ‘love Jihad’

BJP and ‘love jihad’

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…