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The feet of my eyes

SINDH’S saints and savants are dust. Even its living are slowly dying. The Endowment Fund Trust (EFT) in Karachi however ensures that Sindhi culture survives. The EFT ignored warnings about…

Zia Mohyeddin played with air

JOSH Malihabadi was in full cry at a private soiree in Karol Bagh, in the modest second floor home abutting old Delhi that S.M. Mehdi had settled in with his…

Religious prisons

A JIRGA in northern Pakistan bans women from visiting tourist spots. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan continues to deny education to girls as well as freedom to work or go…

Living with grief

JUST as every living being must taste death, so do all humans experience grief, especially when a loved one’s physical presence is no more. Grief takes various forms and manifestations…

Humanity’s next revolution

In a previous article, I presented the exciting advances taking place in the field of artificial intelligence and how they will change the world we live in. Artificial intelligence relates…

Karbala glimpses

COMMUNITIES across the Muslim world, particularly in South Asia and the Middle East, are familiar with the heartrending epic of Karbala, as the event is firmly embedded in the cultural…

A night for literature

I normally do not write on anything related to the corporate sector for two reasons. First, the corporate sector in Pakistan – or in any other country for that matter…

Can’t take them on

One of the most dreadful periods I have lived through, as a citizen and as a journalist, was in the aftermath of the assassination of Salmaan Taseer in the first…