Mohammad Ahmad

While the human spirit craves for liberty at all ages, its yearning peaks in youth. The youth are attracted to people and movements calling for liberation. While the educated youth in Pakistan have mostly had pathetic choices in the last many decades, it was not all bad in the past. The educated youth of Pakistan […]

Modern Saudi Arabia is the result of an 18th century alliance between the Saudi family of Najd in Central Arabia and Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab belonging to the Hanbali school. The Saudi ruling clan’s legitimacy is based on rule in the name of religion as interpreted by the Salafi clerics. Interestingly, these clerics allow […]

“Across the world, people are being singled out and hounded out simply for the faith they hold….[Middle Eastern Christians] are rooted in their societies, adopting and even shaping local customs. Yet…[a] mass exodus is taking place, on a Biblical scale. In some places, there is real danger that Christianity will become extinct.” These words, delivered […]

The history of the creation of the Israeli state and its aftermath is traumatic for both sides of the conflict. Fighting wars where the basis lies in what happened centuries ago has, unfortunately, been the destiny of mankind. Trying to correct the wrongs of history is fraught with upheaval and destruction. This destruction and distress […]

Nelson Mandela is dead and he is being praised by all. It would have been alright if it was just praise that was being showered but, very strangely, those people whose words and actions have no connection with his ideals have also started owning him. Hypocrisy rules cyberspace, the airwaves and print. Many of our […]

The world media cries over the failure of Pakistan as a state. Naturally, all who love the country get disturbed. They wish for the world to see the positives of their land. They want the world to acknowledge that the country has the world’s seventh largest coal reserves, estimated at 175 billion tonnes, in Thar. […]

Depending upon which side of the divide they are, people comment differently on Hakeemullah Mehsud’s elimination from the terror stage. However, all agree on the fact that the event has brought into public notice the fact that the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) is the most outspoken ally of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), beating Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F by […]

A Malaysian appeals court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, even in their own faiths, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling. In 2009, The Herald, a Catholic newspaper, was prohibited by the Malaysian government from using the word ‘Allah’ in its Malay-language edition to describe God. The newspaper […]

“It is not our war,” says Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, and the All Parties Conference endorses negotiations with the Taliban, calling them stakeholders. A Major General of the Pakistan army is killed by the Taliban as a thank you gift and we still do not call it our war. Killing of men […]

On August 27, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported that a senior Syrian military official says that if the US or a coalition of nations attacks Syrian government forces, Syria and its allies will launch an immediate attack on Israel. “If Damascus comes under attack, Tel Aviv will be targeted too and a full-scale war […]