When silence is a statement
Abbas Nasir Mexico is being gravely wounded by drug cartels vying for domination just as Pakistan is being torn apart by religious zealots seeking supremacy. Everyone knows who Benazir Bhutto…
The good, the bad and the ugly
"Is media jingoism fanning Indo-Pak tensions?" was the topic of a panel discussion at the sprawling India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi on April 15. Indian and Pakistani journalists,…
Why India cannot deliver on climate change
Last month, the world failed to agree on a process that would slow down the rate of climate change. Scientists believe that the world is heating up because of an…
A feminist nikahnama
In an opinion issued on the popular Islam Online website a few months ago, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, one of the most prominent clerics in the Sunni Muslim world, responded to…
Lessons from the Airblue crash
The tragedy of Airblue Flight 202 will not be easily forgotten, for reasons other than the loss of 152 lives. What will stay in our collective memory is that we…
Corruption elimination
Revenue generation by a political government is always accompanied with issues and opposition, but a deeply rooted political system is capable of implementing policies successfully. The government achieves various economic…
Reign of terror in Karachi
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani finally made it to Karachi on Monday, and presided over a Sindh cabinet meeting where he said that the federal government was ready to help…
Despicable lies
Ever since it became known in the mid-eighties that my colleagues and I had successfully produced nuclear weapons, many pseudo-experts tried to claim credit and tarnish my name. When a…
Speech from the throne
The president’s history-making address to the joint session of parliament has painted such a rosy picture of the country that it seems that he is capable of seeing things which…
Beyond the headlines
We have a new prime minister. The vacuum left by the guillotining of Yousuf Raza Gilani will now be filled till the judicial blade comes swishing down again to decapitate…
