Taking the wheel
Has Donald Trump’s sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for…
Healing a wounded society
When you contemplate the present state of affairs in Pakistan from various perspectives and glide over the media headlines, the impression that we are locked in a struggle against terrorism…
Hope emerges from Istanbul
In the incessantly destroyed national and individual lives of Palestinians – by so many global and regional powers and people – hope for a better future was never going to…
Need to carve new pathways
Among deafening chants of resurgence, Pakistan seems to be getting increasingly embroiled in suicidal entanglements that it would be better to stay away from. Among several others, there are two…
Israel’s enablers
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides – in India,…
Rebuilding Gaza
The idea of reconstruction is dangled before the residents of Gaza. Those who call for it from abroad seem to envision just clearing rubble, pouring concrete, and rehabilitating infrastructure. There…
Welcome musical interlude
WITH so much murder and mayhem in the world, so much turmoil and intolerance, a genocide (now paused) in the name of ‘self-defence’ and with twisted ideologies and terrorism taking…
A farce called peace plan
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has finally unveiled his much-touted 20-point plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, which he describes as a landmark deal to end two years of a devastating war. But in…
The Muslim cause
THE exhausted, brutalised people of Gaza have been promised a let-up in Israel’s relentless assaults at numerous points over the past two years. Yet the bombs have continued to drop.…
Pakistan, seen from Europe
HERE is something new. For five days last week, I was part of a small group of Pakistani journalists invited by the European Union (EU) to visit Brussels and interact…
