Mobilising Islam for progressive social transformation on September 25, 2018Religion becomes a part of the socio-cultural fabric and the political programs in a society where the terms of debate and engagement are defined by religion, political programs can contain an appeal to the religious sentiments or they can be articulated in the terminology and inspirations drawn from religion. Religion being absorbed into the socio-cultural […]
Gaps in the education system are producing mindless graduates on June 27, 2018What do we know about education apart from the fact that there’s a serious crisis going on? In reality, apart from the bleak statistics about primary education, we have all kinds of educational emergencies that we chose to ignore. Given that education is often a guarantee of upward social mobility, the hunt for a degree […]
Pashtun lands: Political violence and social disarray amidst cultural richness on December 14, 2017Socially connected, culturally the same but politically fragmented, and yet the manifestation of the political fragmentation results in the same chaos and same reign of violence. This is the land of Pashtuns, spreading across from east of Afghanistan to its west and occupying the adjacent land mass in Pakistan. In terms of population, Pashtuns make […]
Looking inwards on September 5, 2017It becomes a tenuous exercise fraught with controversies, knee-jerk reactions, labels of in house informer, a turncoat and allegations of being insensitive to the pain of the people when the culture of a group of people who is facing systematic discrimination in an asymmetric federal structure is scrutinised, even if the ones doing the scrutiny […]