One community
We are different from one another yet we are one community. In fact, the Holy Quran says that all humans are one community. Everyone born in this world is human…
Dancing to the tunes of J Street
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. It’s as if Ernest Benn had George…
The emptied barrel of hope
In the grim aftermath of the December 16, 2014 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, as parents laid children in graves, the sense of shock running through the…
Lost wisdom
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions. Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal In his address to the Constituent Assembly…
Moral society
Society is not the product of a big bang something that has come into being just by accident. It owes its genesis and existence to the interdependence of individuals and…
Fighting terrorism
A revolutionary believes in overthrowing of a system that denies economic equality and freedom to all, especially to the oppressed and have-nots. His struggle aims at eliminating economic powerlessness and…
Soul of education
The education system in Pakistan is deeply flawed. It produces graduates who are either incapable of representing our socio-cultural ideals or incompetent to do anything worthwhile in the field of…
The Charlie Hebdo challenge
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings massive outpourings of Western outrage and resolve to root out terrorist violence have been on display. Whatever Western views of the cartoons…
Wisdom in Rome
As I prepare for my travel to Europe I’m told I must obtain the polio certificate, which is now as important as the entry visa and the ‘ok to board’…
The prime minister has spoken
The storied hall of the United Nations General Assembly in New York is not quite the place where leaders of member countries spell out any dramatic shifts in their government’s…
