Gandhis betrayal: Pashtuns thrown to the wolves on August 16, 2017“You have thrown us to the wolves,” is the historic sentence that celebrated leader of the Congress Party Abdul Ghafar Khan also known as Bacha Khan said bitterly after his fellow leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi accepted the partition plan outlined by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the British viceroy. Pashtun, historically, not being part of the subcontinent […]
Unholy nexus: Boots, Coats and Camera? on August 8, 2017 Pakistani masses have long ago, been faced with terrorism, sectarianism and religious extremism. Beyond these all, the worst threat to the country is the downing of democracy and its ‘vulnerable’ parliamentary setup that are unambiguously attacked after every few years. The “disqualification” of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif is the continuity of patterns set by the […]
Persons with disabilities: the issues on December 29, 2015Ignorance about the plight of the disabled is not just relevant to Pakistan; it is global. The UN itself woke up to the issue of the disabled in 1981 and declared it the International Year of Disability. From 1981 to 2006 — in the latter year the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of […]
Christians in Pakistan on December 29, 2015Christians form most of the non-Muslim minority in Pakistan and account for 1.5 percent of the total population. Most Christians in Pakistan come from an ‘untouchable’ perception about their background. The 1855 census shows there were no native Christians in present day Pakistan. With the efforts of missionaries, by 1881 there were only 3,912 native […]
President Karzai the Ahmad Shah Sani on December 30, 2013After World War II and the Cold War in the 20th century, the tragic incident of 9/11 was the first biggest incident of the 21st century in world’s history to date. It was not only an attack on important buildings but was a shifting of policies, change in political interests and, above all, demarcation of […]