Naeem Tahir

Reshma’s voice had that amazing quality as if it was emerging from the wilderness. Her voice engulfed the listener and surrounded it in melody. She was born in 1947 at Bekaner, Rajasthan, in the same village as Mehdi Hassan. She migrated with her family to Pakistan. In time, the girl from gypsy singers attained such […]

Leaked out in an English daily are the terms offered to the Taliban for the so-called negotiations. The information does not seem to have been carried by any other newspaper. The dateline was October 12, 2013, from Washington, reported by the editor himself! Since then the information seems to have been hushed up. Here I […]

Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj was born on October 13, 1900. His birth anniversary came and quietly passed by. There were no mentions on radio or TV. His family stayed quiet, but they remember the trauma of his assassination on April 19, 1970. It was Ms Anjum Ahmed, Principal, and Farzana Mujib, Senior Vice Principal, distinguished […]

Recent news items indicate that some clues have been found to trace the criminal who raped the innocent child. The thought of a little innocent girl going through such a traumatic experience is shatteringly painful. She will remain in my memory as a symbol of innocence trampled by a sick and criminal adult male. There […]

We have seen that a rape is more a hate crime than merely a sex crime. If it was a simple sex crime then some easier ways to minimise the crime could be found as they have done elsewhere in the world. In several parts of the world there is some provision of the ‘sex […]

The shattering molestation of the little innocent, five-year-old, baby girl Sumbul is known to the world. She is a ‘symbol’ of the agony caused by a cancer in the society. This innocent child was raped and left at the gate of the Ganga Ram Hospital. The tragedy was brought to the notice of public by […]

I recall, in my adolescent days, there was a raging controversy against ‘loudspeakers’. Loudspeakers are now known as ‘public address systems’. The maulvis were in the forefront against the use of the loudspeaker, labelling it as a ‘satanic’ invention, as it broadcast the ‘voice of Satan’! So they prohibited the use of loudspeakers and some […]

I questioned in my article on last Saturday (Daily Times, September 14, 2013) if the All Parties Conference’s (APC’s) unconditional offer to the Taliban was’surrender’ or not. I put a question mark after the word surrender, and then stated in some detail the conditions that will define the negotiations as surrender or not. It is […]

The much awaited All Parties Conference (APC) is over. The ‘reluctant debutant’, Imran Khan, also participated and proved that his refusal was ‘much ado about nothing’. This APC has so far achieved only a ‘consensus’, which is not much. I hate to repeat the saying that ‘Fools never differ’ because these wise men are no […]

That September came at a time when the Pakistani nation was barely 18 years old. Many of the generation who had been the part of the struggle for freedom were alive. There were also those who had seen near and dear ones slaughtered before their eyes. Then there were those who had arrived at the […]