Language of Power: How it is getting more exclusive – By R. Khan
Regardless of the demonizing of the West, the western ideology is welcomed in every form. A language comes with the baggage of cultural identity and...
Category: Politics
Banning O Level Urdu Textbook – By S. Ali
Recently, much hue and cry has been raised for banning “Pakistan ki kahaniyan,” an anthology of Urdu short stories and a core textbook of O...
A Tale of Two Peoples – By A. Banerjee
A Tale of Two Peoples – By A. Banerjee The decline of Mughal power brought about the rise of the Marathas. In AD 1714,...
Jinnah and the Muslims of British India – By R. Khan
Jinnah and the Muslims of British India – By R. Khan In the last part of the book, Ahmed attempts to describe the state of...
Return of Gandhi – A Modern Day Tale: By A. Mahajan
Return of Gandhi – A Modern Day Tale: By A. Mahajan I just walked out of my Samadhi at Rajghat; as the actor Arnold Swaz...
Sindhi-Muhajir: Headed For a Deadly Break Up? – By R. Malik
After this murderous day is over and the sea breeze cools temperature in Karachi, citizens, both Sindhis and Muhajirs must ponder over their differences and...
Pakistan Steel – An Academic Analysis (MBA Report)
Pakistan Steel – An Academic Analysis (MBA Report) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The iron and steel industry holds the key to the sustained growth of the engineering...
Obsession with Borderline Issues – By Sameer
A flood of replies to a recent article I saw, What Constitutes Blasphemy?, speaks of an obsession by Pakistanis with borderline issues. Instead of condemning...
Proud Pakistani? – By A.A.Khattak
People from all over the world are undoubtedly proud to be nationals of their respective countries except for some unfortunate people of some “unfortunate...
South Asian Socialism – A Plea for Sanity – By. M. Sami
South Asian Socialism – A Plea for Sanity The United States has now accrued a federal government debt of $8.2 trillion. To get a sense...
People’s Verdict – By D. Syed
Nothing speaks of a nation’s values, and reflects its true character more than the will of ordinary men and women expressed at the ballot...
Iran at the Crossroads, Bombs or Butter? – By M. Gill
This article was published in 2015, hence dated. It is reproduced here just for reference. At one end of the spectrum are the hardest of...
The Meaning of Pakistan – By A. F. Sarwari
Shortly after I got back to sunny California after visiting Pakistan, I was unaware my life would change so drastically, but it did! Shortly after...
Poverty in Pakistan – An Academic Study
The Nature & Definition of Poverty Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions....
Is the American Dream Dead? Can Asians Think? – By Athar O.
The other day I was reading an interesting book by a leading American anthropologist and thinker, Jeremy Rifkin, titled “The European Dream” and with a...
This Visit To Pakistan – By H. Gardezi
This Visit To Pakistan – By H. Gardezi At the tastefully laid out New Year eve’s dinner table in Ayyub Malik’s London home, it was...
Kashmir: What Next? – By DJ Phukan
The article evaluates likely scenarios, strategy and future options for Kashmir Solution. India: POK is AOK? Despite its official position India does not want the...
Qaum Aur Mulk – By Y. L. Hamdani
It was the general will of the Muslims of South Asia that got us Pakistan. Our founding fathers’ struggle against tyranny of the Majority was...
Yesterday’s Failures are Today’s Successes
The law of unintended consequences During most of my working life I have relied on analysing government policies and programs to put daal-roti on the...
The Power of Faith – By N. Akram
As the saying goes: The Lord has a mysterious way of doing things. He certainly does, as I was to realize after 40 years of...
