Inamullah Marwat

Recently Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai visited Pakistan after spending five years abroad. Her homecoming received a mixed response, which has been testified to by popular feedback on social media. Some considered her a beacon of change and advocated that she was an admirable person for promoting women’s empowerment and education in Pakistan. The major chunk, however, was quite sceptical of her … [Read more...] about Analysing Malala’s homecoming

The beauty of democracy lies in the fact that ideally, it is supposed to be accommodating to diversity and adaptive to changing times. This is what makes it worth following as a model of governance across the globe.  Realistically however, implementing an ideal democracy is not as easy as holding general elections every few years. Although this shouldn't discourage states from pursuing republican … [Read more...] about Can Pakistani democracy survive?

At present, the youth constitute the majority of this country’s population. According to rough estimates, more than 60 percent of Pakistan’s current population is home to youth lot. This demographic dividend brings Pakistan knocking at the door of opportunity and risk simultaneously. If the potential of the youth is tapped properly, it could begin to rotate the clogged wheel of Pakistan’s … [Read more...] about Stewarding Pakistan’s demographic dividend

In any society, writers have a crucial responsibility on their shoulders. Their vantage point to look at what is happening in the society is different from a layman’s. They tap the fault lines of conventional wisdom and help the society understand existing gaps in mainstream societal ideas. Failure to do so results in the decay of any society. They try to break the corrosive silence surrounding … [Read more...] about Achieving cultural modernity through writing

Almost 70 years have passed since Pakistan came into existence. The generation that saw Pakistan’s birth coupled with traumas of partition is now in its final years. For the current generation, the only way to understand the context of how Pakistan came into being is a set of history books which presents history in an oversimplified manner without taking into consideration the multiple dimensions … [Read more...] about Time to redefine partition’s history

British author Anatol Lieven writes in his book entitled Pakistan: A Hard Country that Pakistan is a hard country to make sense of. He writes, “Trying to understand Pakistan’s internal structures and dynamics is complicated; for if there is one phrase which defines many aspects of Pakistan and is the central of this book, it is ‘Janus-faced’. In other words, many of the same features of the … [Read more...] about Pakistan’s haphazard fight against extremism

Whether the decision to become the US ally in war on terror was by choice or out of compulsion, there is no doubt that Pakistan has paid a huge price for this adventure. Its every nook and corner has both imploded and exploded. There was a time we all remember when the sense of insecurity was palpable in almost all provinces. Externally, at the global level, stepping on our part to wipe out … [Read more...] about Development at the cost of utter deprivation