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From Nehru to Jigar Muradabadi: A road renamed
Jigar Muradabadi and Moti Lal Nehru are two great people from the days of undivided India. Both of them were associated with the Indian National Congress. Moti Lal was an active political worker. He...
View ArticleMumtaz Qadri, Prison King
Prisons are parallels of the world in which they exist; its evils, its injustice, its inequities are all magnified and underscored in miniature and microcosm in the world behind bars. The dark recesses...
View ArticleIqbal, Imran and Pakistan
Criticisms abound.Imran’s naysayers censure him for doing too little in the political arena. They point out that if running a hospital of international standards was a yardstick to measure leadership,...
View ArticleNilofar, you will be remembered
Oh Nilo, you were always such a tease, weren’t you? It was never going to end well."She's simply too bad for you," they said.But you were our fetish, girl. We followed you around for so long, and now...
View ArticleThe story of Asia Bibi does not matter in Pakistan
Like all those accused of blasphemy by the twisted mullah-obsessed minds, Asia Bibi’s cry for justice has fallen on deaf ears. For Pakistanis, Asia Bibi is a menace; another woman defaming the...
View ArticleChanging times: Ijtihad and other questions Muslims must revisit
Is suicide bombing justified? Can women lead prayers? Is there a feminist interpretation of Islam?These are some of the questions Muslims living in the West often face. They attempt to answer these...
View ArticleThe sorry state of research at our universities and how to fix it
Universities in developed countries have an established research culture. The research output of academia greatly contributes towards the development of these countries. While universities in Pakistan...
View ArticleWagah attack: Terror moves eastward
There's something ominous about the location of Sunday night's horrific suicide attack in Wagah.The tragedy may portend a geographic shift in South Asian militancy – one that lurches eastward from the...
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Gentlemen, it's time to close Pakistan's gender gap
Most of us men, we pay attention to rankings. We debate and discuss rankings of our favourite teams, sports heroes, colleges, our cities, and even our countries on how they stack against the rest. Just...
View ArticleAbsolute dominance: Is this really Pakistan?
Anyone remember what happened in Abu Dhabi about three weeks ago? I doubt it. Pakistan were so comprehensive in their Test series whitewash of Australia that, dare I say, the horrors of Sydney 2010 may...
View ArticleZarb-i-Azb alone won't save Pakistan
If maintaining ties with militants has brought us to this point, what would severing them do? How much worse could it get? That's what I found myself asking, as body after body of the deceased arrived...
View ArticleDeconstructing the evil 'system': Who are the corrupt?
In my last article, I focused on busting the myth of the ‘feudal’ being the root of all evil, by presenting some ground realities of how the country's real ‘elites’ exploit the system to protect their...
View ArticleStop this gender discrimination…against men!
Feminism is a lie. If it was not a lie, why would there be no mentions of it in the Constitution of Pakistan? The constitution; a document that has everything from your fundamental rights to your not...
View ArticleSubsidies subsidise the civil servant, not the poor
The intricate web of subsidies obstructs the flow of resources to the poor; alleviating poverty can get a boost by eliminating the middleman.Researchers argue that direct cash transfers would do better...
View ArticleHerald exclusive: The diary of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
MondayDear diary, a lot of people criticise me just for being Benazir’s son. They say I shouldn’t be in politics, that it’s wrong. I don’t understand what they want me to do, join the army? People have...
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How Pakistani candidates embarrass us in Canadian polls
Last week was municipal elections-week in the Ontario province of Canada, where the majority of Pakistani candidates running for various offices continued their losing streak. Only two Pakistani...
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The liberal fascist Hindu feudal foreign hand did it!
There’s a sale going on. What was once the ownership of haughty ‘experts’ can now be yours. So hurry up and get your favorite reasons for whatever goes wrong in Pakistan … Foreign HandThe famous...
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Why we need more Metro Buses
Every other week, barbs are exchanged on TV and criticism is launched in print on the Lahore Bus Rapid Transit Green Line, or as it is commonly called, "Lahore Metro Bus". It has been deemed a failure...
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Clarkabad: Where Shahzad and Shama once stood
We were all there by an accident. I, Reverend Robert Clark, Shahzad Maseeh and Shama. Clark, I discovered, was a mysterious old man, who had travelled almost half of Europe. In the second half of 19th...
View ArticleThe bloodstained bricks that build the nation
They mold the earth and make the bricks that build the nation. Before they can write or read or dream the people of the brick kilns know how to take the loose grains of that shift beneath their feet...
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