Dealing with Islamophobia
In 2015, while speaking alongside the French ambassador, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu termed Muslims “dangerous animals” and complained that Israel had too many of them. A few years ago,…
The real battlefield is intellectual
In the ancient city of Rabat, where the intellectual heritage of the Islamic world resonates in historic libraries and madrasas, the Vice Chancellors’ Forum of Universities in the Islamic World,…
A long winding road
Bhurgri (also spelled Bhurgari) is essentially a Baloch tribe that settled in Sindh a couple of centuries ago. Today, the community reflects a Baloch-Sindhi identity, with most members speaking Sindhi.…
Final nail in NPT coffin
Today, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) stands totally destroyed after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s IAEA safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities. With this, the nuclear nonproliferation regime has also…
Final nail in NPT coffin
Today, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) stands totally destroyed after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s IAEA safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities. With this, the nuclear nonproliferation regime has also…
The machinery of influence
There is a particular breed of political monster that history births again and again – yet each time, the world is unprepared to recognise it. It is the leader who…
The ‘end of India’
In 2003, the legendary Indian writer Khushwant Singh published a small but searing book titled ‘The End of India’. In it, he issued a bleak warning: that India, if it…
What Pakistan should do next
Water has always been used as the ultimate weapon – more powerful than armies, more destructive than bombs. The ancient kings of Mesopotamia understood this brutal truth when they diverted…
A cornered demagogue
Narendra Modi, the self-styled vanguard of ‘Rising India’, has long built his political career on two foundations: theatrical nationalism and relentless communalism. Both find convenient expression in his cyclical chest-thumping…
Savarkar’s legacy, Modi’s reality
Two months before his latest escalation of militaristic policies, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly honoured Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a significant influence on both his political stance and ideological framework.…
