The majestic Qur’anAs a schoolboy in the hills of Abbottabad, Iread Marmaduke Pickthall’stranslation of the Holy Quran, and its stirring introduction has stayed with me to this day. Pickthall wrote:“The Qur’an cannot be...
Remembering minorities on August 11National Minorities' Day has been observed in Pakistan on August 11since 2009. This is because of efforts by the now deceased Minorities Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, who advocated for reforms of the Paki...
Save waterSir: water is something we need in our daily life. Earth is known as the blue planet. Seas and oceans hold 97 percent of all the water, of which only three percent is fresh water. Why water is treated...
Dalai Lama’s Jinnah and PartitionSir: While addressing the Goa Institute of Management, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said India would have remained a united country if Jinnah had become its first prime minister. He was perhaps...
Who is a credible ally?Sir: The US has lost its reputation both as an ally and as a champion of multilateralism. For instance, Trump’s mercurial nature and his indecisiveness on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the N...
Plight of PalestineSir: I am writing to your prestigious newspaper to address the gross violation of human rights in Palestine by the Israeli government, which cannot be properly explained through words. The Israeli gov...
Justice for PakistanSir: Horrific sexual assaults like the one that took the life of seven year old Zainab Ansari in January 2018 continue to take place. Over the past one week, there have been numerous cases such as an...
Education at StakeSir: The recent torching of schools by terrorists in Gilgit Baltistan's Diamer district have brought back memories of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's reign of terror in Swat. The people of Pakistanar...
An exceptional judgmentIn the previous month, Justice Athar Minallah of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) authored a landmark judgment in a case related to a "missing person" by the name of Sajid Mehmood. Through this valuable...
Book review: Analysing the Indo-Pak nuclear threatA Punjabi adage "kehna tei noh tay sunanan noh nou" aptly sums up the crisis in the Subcontinent. Moeed Yusuf's book begins where most of the books on South Asian stability end. What distinguishes thi...