Relevance of Maulana Hasrat Mohani
Zainul Abedin’s columns on the life and times of Bhagat Singh – well-researched and aptly articulated published in this newspaper recently, call for immediate attention by those intellectuals, members of…
War fever
War fever is in the air. Fifty thousand Russian troops and armour are massed on Ukraine’s eastern border. Europe and Washington worry that the reborn Red Army may sweep west…
Is the Taj Mahal Pakistani?
Of course, this is an absurd question. How on earth could the Taj Mahal ‘be Pakistani’ and claim a nationality which was only imagined 400 years after the mausoleum was…
A bumpy ride ahead
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s third term in office was meant to be the golden era of Pakistan-India relations, an opportunity to finish what he started with Atal Behari Vajpayee in…
China’s regional strategy
At a recent conference in Europe I found a great deal of interest in Pakistan’s close and growing relations with China. Three sets of questions aroused much curiosity. One, how…
Missing the point
Sharif just doesn’t seem to get it. After his meeting with Kerry at The Hague last Monday, the prime minister once again pleaded for US mediation to help resolve the…
Where next?
You may have heard of a man called David Cameron. He is prime minister of the UK and arguably even more inept than his immediate predecessors, Messrs Blair and Brown,…
How the world sees us and why
The other day I was looking for a good visual to go with an article about media perceptions and stereotyping of Muslims. Finally, failing to find what I was looking…
Realpolitik reigns
As the confrontation between the ‘West’ and Russia hots up following the annexation of Crimea, a number of commentators and political personalities have raised alarm bells about the real possibility…
Running on empty
DONALD Rumsfeld, who was America’s defence secretary during the Iraq war, pointed out that you fight with the army you have rather than the one you want. This truism underscores…
