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Square Peg in the Round Hole
Pakistan is a country that claimed to be created in the name of Islam. Islam’s whole edifice stands on two basic principles; social justice and ethics. In contemporary Pakistan, both canons of Islam seem missing. Thus, we may derive that Pakistan was an outcome of an international environment instead of any ideological underpinnings. When Prime …
Satire: Imran Khan discovers laughing gas worth more than $201 trillion
LAHORE: In a bold bid to defeat his junior stalwart Murad Saeed’s (in)famous $200 billion news, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman (and also prime minister) Imran Khan has announced that the nation is going to hear good news in three weeks. Leaving it to the imagination of the audience that the good news carries $201 billion or …
Human Vs Inhuman: Christchurch unveiled
The Christchurch tragedy on March 15, 2019, explicitly exposed this planet. A human being is a unit in the making of a nation. It follows with a belief system. Thus, first of all, a human being is valued. The said incident categorically tells that there are only two nations in the world; one is a …
LONDON – A HAVEN FOR DISSENTERS
It was in 1968 that I came to London as part of eight journalists from Commonwealth countries given Commonwealth Press Union Scholarship for mid-age newsmen for training in advance journalism. Our stay here was multi-faceted, very well-choreographed and highly educational. Our group was taken around UK from London to Edinburgh and various places in between …
Pakistan Day: Dream of an egalitarian state
While celebrating 79th National Day, many Pakistanis expressed bafflement as to how a state purportedly created in the name of ‘Islam’ is juxtaposed with the term ‘Republic’. They wonder how a Parliament, where majority is not that of theologians, enacts Western-inspired laws and yet claims that Shariah is supreme. In the Western world, ‘republic’ is …
A marathon of inconvenience
Lahore: As marathon returned to the Lahore city after a gap of six years, 58-year-old Muhammad Munir Kamboh Chishti, a diehard runner, was so excited to run, he arrived at the registration booth at Gaddafi Stadium at 11am on Saturday only to find he was the second one to get the running bib. Soon, other …
Chugging along Bilawal
The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) is calling it a Karavan-e-Bhutto; the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government’s firebrand minister Fawad Chaudhry is calling it ‘Abu Bachao March (March for saving daddy), whereas the national mainstream media is hardly commenting on the march. The activity begs is a question: what is this Karachi to Larkana train journey by …
Locked away – a view of Mardan prison
Prison is not a pleasant place. No one likes to talk about it. When we hear the word, we think about a place where there is no life, but that’s not true. The prison’s daily life is much like one spends inside a home territory. Mardan Prison is the largest capacity prison in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa …
Christchurch Attack Decoded: A Manifestation of Master Plan to Divide the Muslim and Christian World
Note: The piece is based on the author’s thesis. Introduction The terrorist attack on Muslims by a white supremacist terrorist has resulted into more depression and confusion among the people. It is time to explain this subject critically to eliminate uncertainty about what is happening at the global level in the context of white supremacist …
Jab They Met
On March 7, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari tweeted: “Appalled to hear of the callous and inhumane treatment of imprisoned former PM Nawaz Sharif by the government. His illness should be treated seriously, be provided with proper medical care and treated with respect.” On March 11, he visited an ailing Mian Nawaz Sharif …