Deciphering Islamophobia
The killing of 50 people at the Christchurch mosque has raised serious questions on how to translate these events – as white supremacist extremist acts, Islamophobia, terrorism or an issue…
Fight against capitalism
The big guns are out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charismatic first-term legislator from New York. In an apparent swipe at Ocasio-Cortez, Donald Trump used part of his rambling State of…
The angry Pakistani
IT takes an outsider to point out the anger within us. Last week, a former US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, spoke at an event, arguing that our anger prevents…
Targeted killing of Hazaras
IT’S very hard to find a single household of the Hazara community in Quetta that has not been victimised by targeted killing. It is a caged community, owing to their…
Clearing bureaucratic hurdles
There is no denying the fact that the knowledge economy drives the global economy. For Pakistan, education is the only gateway to the country’s prosperity and success and serves as…
The TLP conundrum
Despite Barelvis being the dominant sect – almost fifty percent – they had been overwhelmed by the Deobandi-Salafi brand since independence. Such was the impact of political Islam as the Subcontinent drifted…
The anti-climax
The state of shock and mourning of those earlier vying for a dogfight between an elected government and the military and now inciting hatred against the khaki high command for…
The glorious Musharraf era
Five days after he took over power from Nawaz Sharif in 1999, General Pervez Musharraf announced the following seven-point agenda: 1. Rebuild national confidence and morale 2. Strengthen the federation,…
Generation Z: the flip side
This piece is inspired by two wonderful articles published last week in this and another newspaper. Kamal Siddiqi and Mosharraf Zaidi, two writers of eminence, brought the focus back on…
The grey list failure
Pakistan faced an enormous foreign policy failure recently when it was placed on the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering watchdog. The failure…
