This is a time of deep introspection
Pakistan is spiraling into abject poverty and is slipping further into the abyss. The World Bank (WB) reports that over the last three years, real incomes have declined at a…
The trouble with Tarek
Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author, died on April 24 this year. He had for years criticized the partition of India, which many people do, but he went many…
Nobody writes to the rebel anymore (With apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.)
While Pakistan and the world reel in shock, horror, condemnation and mourning for the barbaric massacre of Muslims at Friday prayers in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15, 2019, the…
Hero-worship
Turkish epic TV serial Dirils Ertugrul, made on the life of a 13th century nomad tribal warrior, has taken the non-Arab Muslim world by storm. There are however historical, political…
Allama Iqbal on equitable taxation
In this article, we are highlighting the ideas of the great thinker, philosopher and poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, on economics and taxation. He is popularly praised and acknowledged as Musawwir-e-Pakistan…
Constitutionalism in Islam
Islam enjoins upon its followers to integrate their spiritual and mundane life. It founded a political system which guaranteed freedoms and liberties. It controls the state authority by laying down…
Support on Kashmir
Prime Minister Imran Khan forcefully exposed Indian atrocities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) at the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly last year. He informed the world…
Work ethics & Islam
MOHAMMED Abduh, the famous Egyptian Islamic scholar and jurist had once said: “I went to the West and saw Islam but there were no Muslims. I came to the East…
Intellect & Islam
GIVEN the lack of analytical thought, deep reflection and serious scholarship in many Muslim societies today, the fact that intellect was cited by the Holy Prophet (PBUH) as the most…
Rational choices
A few years ago, I was teaching ‘rational choice theory’ in international relations to a class of students. The theory, in the interest of brevity, claims that the actions of…
