Obamacare’s foot soldiers train to enroll the masses
Nahla Kayali is a foot soldier for Obamacare. She is among the first wave of 2,000 community organisers in California getting trained to persuade more than 1 million uninsured people…
Electoral violence
The last four months have been the bloodiest in our violence-ridden country's political arena. According to a report prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, as many as…
Aggressive discrimination
In the mad race for power that has affected participants and spectators alike nobody seems to be bothered about the havoc being wrought by intolerance-driven violence. For several months, the…
The Jewish vote
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, there are around 800 Jewish voters registered in Pakistan out of which 427 are women and 382 men. This statistic seems odd because…
The ides of March again
As if ethnic and sectarian strife were not enough to go with terrorism, we are now facing religious strife. One is under no illusion that this is not being deliberately…
The decline of Indian Muslims
Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Shatranj Ke Khilari, or The Chess Players, is a sublime and moving lament for the passing of the Muslim aristocracy in India. As the British plot their…
Brothers at war
For two sects united by their belief in one Maker, one Book and one Prophet, the amount of blood spilt in the name of their respective faiths by Shias and…
When a state is dysfunctional
Who knows what a failed state is? Such definitions are for the academics and experts. But what one can easily ascertain is a state that is dysfunctional. For what would…
Laundering one’s sins
Had our politicians been like their Indian counterparts, they would have taken a dip in the waters at Attock (the confluence of the rivers Indus and Kabul) or at Panjnad…
Liberating faith from the fringe
Another day, another massacre in the name of the exalted faith. Will this senseless, endless dance of death in the name of all that is holy ever stop? We have…
