View Point: Israeli aggression and Western hypocrisy
The casualty figures from the latest Israeli barbarity against the besieged Gaza Palestinians speak for themselves. Over 200 people killed in a week-long assault from the air, the sea and…
Article 245 and the long march
How long the march will be is what will decide how August 14 ends up for Pakistan. Million, half-a- million or less. Spread longitudinally on the narrow roads of Islamabad’s…
Aid and stereotypes
In one of the short aid-appeal videos produced by the Norwegian Students and Academics International Assistance Fund, the tables are turned. Instead of featuring wealthy Norwegians giving aid to starving…
Tribes and terrorism
Rustam Shah Mohmand, a member of the team appointed by the government to negotiate with Taliban, ignited a debate this week through an article contributed to a national English daily,…
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…
Beyond the law
Once upon a time, the law of the land was decreed by rulers who owed their positions of power not to popular will but to inherited rank. So it was…
Modi, Muzaffarnagar and a Nehruvian hero
Lord Meghnad Desai is aghast at the way the Indian authorities and the Supreme Court have dealt with the alleged molestation case involving Justice AK Ganguly. Joining a television debate…
Crimes against humanity
The recent death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon went unlamented in most of the Middle East and was greeted with approval on two main counts: first on the humanitarian…
Geoffrey Douglas Langlands: Forever Pakistani
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple,…
Humanity at stake in Syria
Wimp. That’s what pundits in the west and Middle East seem to think about President Barack Obama following his ‘flip-flop’ over Syria. Even those opposed to western interference in the…
