Malik Muhammad Ashraf

Intellectuals are a class of men in a society who possess a deep insight into the causes behind the challenges faced by a nation and have a clear vision about the course it must traverse in the future to stay on course in regard to its ideological moorings and objectives. Their honest guidance helps the […]

Reportedly, India is going to host a G-20 meeting in IIOJ&K. The Indian move has invoked a sharp reaction from Pakistan. While condemning the Indian decision, it has dubbed the move as irresponsible and rightly so. China has also objected to it urging India to avoid politicising the issue. However, India dismissing the Pakistani objection […]

When any future historian will delve into removing the haze of tragedies that Pakistan had to endure and the perennial political instability, it will be hard for him to not mention the pliable and unscrupulous judges among the tormentors of this god-gifted state. They invented dogmas like the doctrine of necessity to validate military coups; […]

The government has held protracted talks with IMF on the ninth review for the release of $ 1.1 billion of the $ 6 billion bailout package, and the portents are that in spite of Pakistan having accepted all the conditions regarding hike in petrol and electricity prices, uncapping rupee parity rate with dollar allowing market […]

Notwithstanding Imran’s emphasis on rule of law from every convenient roof-top, what transpired at Zaman Park, when police and law enforcement agencies went there to carry out the implementation of the arrest warrants issued by Session Judge of Islamabad, was a horrendous portrayal of undermining writ of the state and making a mockery of judiciary. […]

A proverb advices, “Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.” It means that enlightened, well-intentioned and visionary souls have no place where ignorance is regarded as perfect happiness and it is a big mistake on their part if they try to remove it. Nevertheless, ignorance is universally recognised as a curse afflicting […]

Reportedly, an agitated crowd attacked a police station in Nankana on 11 February, pulled out a man accused of desecration of the Holy Quran from the lock-up and killed him. This tragic incident of mob justice unfortunately is not the first of its kind. A similar punishment was inflicted on Mashal Khan a student of […]

The Indian security forces have been using ruthless force to suppress the freedom struggle of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K), which they launched in 1989 after having been frustrated by the Indian intransigence to grant them the right of self-determination. According to reports compiled by human rights organizations and other authentic […]

Machiavelli, regarded as the father of nationalism, is usually perceived as a proponent of politics divorced from conventional morality and bringing forth all means in the quest for political power, even the most unscrupulous. There are many takers of that view, and in most third-world countries, including Pakistan, morality has no place in the power […]

Needless to emphasize that Pakistan at the moment is meandering through an unprecedented economic crisis which is the cumulative effect of the inability of the successive regimes to effect structural changes conducive to macro-economic transformation, a greater focus on micro-economic achievements through excessive short-term borrowing that triggered snow-balling increase in current account deficit leading to […]