Changez Ali

Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan must be terribly disappointed that their attack on parliament and the presidency did not deliver more dead bodies, thanks to the restraint of the police. I could not have imagined even a few days ago using those words to describe the police (any police) but, given the problem they were […]

Theodore Herzl was a revolutionary genius, a statement that attracts attention if you know who he was. As the creator of Zionism, he excites considerable, passionate emotions. Zionism has a lot of bad connotations. We usually associate it with rampant Jewish expansionism and as justification for the unjustifiable. Many will disagree that in his creation […]

While talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) seem to be an exercise in futility, they do highlight some very important facts about the organisation. The first is that the TTP are beyond reconciliation; they may even, in fact, be beyond the pale of recognisable humanity. The descent into wanton butchery for its own sake dehumanises […]

Literacy has always been a major problem in Pakistan. As many commentators have recently pointed out, it is not restricted to the fact that many people cannot read or write, but that the quality of what they read is often mentally regressive rather than enlightening. The internet has its own place in modern literacy problems; […]