Time to chooseIn the days since the US placed Pakistan on a list of countries that violate the tenets of religious freedom — some worrying developments have taken place here in this country. Namely, the sentencing...
Putin’s Arab embraceVladimir Putin is, seemingly, the hidden hand behind Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s official visit to war-torn Syria this week. Thereby underscoring once more how he may well be smarter than the...
Banning MantoManto, by Indian filmmaker Nandita Das, has not made the cut. At least when it comes to this side of the border. And the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFS) is to blame. Due to what it describes as s...
Truth; first casualty of war — Part IWe lost war with India in 1971 and yet to this day volumes are being churned out that irrespective that Quaid's Pakistan was dismembered, it is being insisted that no fault was committed by the milita...
The two December 16thsOn December 16, 1971 Dhaka fell and we lost an all-important limb. The country has never been the same again. Not physically.Not spiritually. Not psychologically. A spear was driven through our heart....