Anwar Syed

Ever since President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani assumed their respective offices, they have been claiming that they wish to pursue the politics of reconciliation, that they want to carry all political forces in the country along on all major issues of public policy. They have not done so in their […]

An ideology is a set of related ideas that interprets social relations in the past, surveys the present, and prescribes requisites of a good life in the future. It has been customary in certain circles to assert that Pakistan was intended to be an ideological state. It may be said also that even if the […]

Are we a hardworking people? Yes and no. A peasant has a lot to do during the sowing season. He works from dawn to dusk. He has to plough the field, take the weeds out, level the ground, build water channels to connect the field with the pumping station or the well, put in the […]