Heinz A. Kissinger
HEINZ Kissinger sloughed many skins in his 100-year-long life. He shed Heinz to become Henry, his German ancestry to become an American, his original faith Judaism to become a faux…
‘Ana Dammi Filasteeni’
Palestinians breed and bleed and advertise their misery — Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor SUPPOSE an enemy country were, God forbid, to besiege Lahore, mercilessly bombard its trapped civilians, kill hundreds…
Slow turn of the tide
WE can see genocide unfold on our phones; scenes of horror dominate our social media feeds as we see images of murdered children and entire families wiped out as Israel…
Myth of Israeli invincibility
THE images on social and mainstream media tell the whole story eloquently, even if the accompanying words of many Western journalists fall short of describing what is really happening, as…
Baying at the moon
THE New Year was invented for those who need a day to bury wasted dreams. Each year, January heralds hope and then every December ends shrouded in a winter of…
Hyderabad nostalgia
“NEVER in my life,” said Mir Laik Ali, Hyderabad’s last prime minister, “had I ever seen Mr Jinnah emotional except on that day.” Pakistan was fighting for its survival in…
No appetite left
EVEN death is losing its appetite. It cannot digest any more casualties in Gaza. The United States should take apart the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and use its stones…
Wilful fratricide
SHOULD a Muslim living in India envy his fellow Muslim living in Pakistan? Is the grass greener on this side of the border? It is an invidious choice — between…
Room only for mass graves
THE Gaza ghetto is being obliterated. How else can you describe it, given that 2.2 million Palestinians live squeezed in the narrow Strip in subhuman conditions while their homes are…
Hiccups won’t derail system
“‘IF suicide was not forbidden (haram) I’d go into parliament with explosives and blow it up,’ roared a charged Shehryar Afridi, a leading light of the governing PTI and the…
