Reconciliation is the best path
Nawabzada Changez Khan Marri’s becoming chief minister of Balochistan may portend the beginning of interesting times for Balochistan and Pakistan. His father, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Khan Marri, is a legend…
Reconciliation is the best path
Nawabzada Changez Khan Marri’s becoming chief minister of Balochistan may portend the beginning of interesting times for Balochistan and Pakistan. His father, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Khan Marri, is a legend…
How Nawaz Sharif can win the day after elections
The 2013 election was billed as the most important and most historic in Pakistan’s short and oft-interrupted experience of being a democracy. It is safe to say that the performance…
Uncertain times
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan had once remarked that Pakhtun women were more intelligent than their husbands. He had of course meant no offence to the men but only expected them…
The jiyalas and the red shirts
A grenade attack on the home of a PPP candidate in Peshawar is followed by a deadly suicide attack on an Awami National Party rally in the city. Events of…
Renaming NWFP
There is a likelihood of the curtain finally dropping on the issue of a new nomenclature for NWFP, a dispute that has continued to hang fire for the last many…
The Chinese prototype
Pakistan’s Minister for Railways, Haji Ghulam Bilour is one of the true followers of veteran Pashtun politician Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan. Bilour is known to…
RDF, Riphah university organize Free Medical Camp
Rural Development Foundation (RDF) and Riphah International University jointly organized a free Medical Camp in Union Council Ghari Afghana, Tehsil Taxila. The purpose of the camp was to provide health…
How to select good books
Many readers and aspiring readers ask about how to select good books, as if there is a universal formula that one can apply on books and select the best ones.…
A critique of three scholars
Some of my readers have asked me to write more on historiography in Pakistan other than the writers such as Ali Abbas Jalalpuri, Dr Mubarak Ali, and Sibte Hasan. In…
