Nauman Sadiq

During the seven-year-long Syrian civil war, al-Jolani has emerged as the second most influential militant leader after the IS Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In fact, at the beginning of the Syrian conflict, IS and al-Nusra were a single organisation that chose the banner of ‘Jabhat al-Nusra The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that one of […]

There is a fundamental difference between scientism, or scientific worldview, which is an ideology based on unproven hypotheses and empirically-proven science. Karl Popper addressed the demarcation problem between scientific worldview and science proper (empirical and verifiable science) in his ‘theory of falsifiability’. Take biological evolution, for instance: natural selection is a scientifically-proven fact; it can […]

We commit a big fallacy when we assume that our educational accomplishments are our individual achievements. We like to believe that we were born with certain innate talents. The fact of the matter is that our innate talents aren’t all that different. Some people are born with genes that make them grow as tall as […]

The training camps located in the border regions of Turkey and Jordan are being used to provide training and weapons to Sunni Arab militants to battle the Shi’a-dominated Syrian regime with the collaboration of Turkish, Jordanian and Saudi intelligence agencies.  Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. […]

  Peaceful, or not, Islam is only a religion just like any other cosmopolitan religion whether it’s Christianity, Buddhism or Hinduism. Instead of taking an essentialist approach, which lays emphasis on essences, we need to look at the evolution of social phenomena in its proper historical context. For instance, to assert that human beings are […]

During the election campaign of 2008 before he was elected president, Barack Obama made an artificial distinction between the supposedly ‘just war’ in Afghanistan and the unjust war in Iraq. He pledged that he would withdraw American troops from Iraq but not from Afghanistan. The unilateral intervention in Iraq by the Bush Administration was highly […]

Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of Sunni-Shi’a conflict in the Middle East region to cover up the blowback of ill-conceived Western military interventions and proxy wars that have reignited the flames of internecine conflict in the Islamic World. Some self-anointed “Arabists” […]

The PTI’s August to December 2014 protest sit-in was carefully planned and choreographed. The role played by Imran Khan and PTI was only secondary; the primary role was played by the establishment’s stooges: Tahir-ul-Qadri, Sheikh Rasheed, Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi During Imran Khan’s four-month-long dharna (sit-in and political demonstrations) in front of the Parliament […]

The most outstanding feature of Islam is its history. If Islamic history is studied, one comes to realise that Islam did not spread by force, but it was the superior moral appeal of its peerless ethics that won the hearts and minds of medieval masses. During the medieval times when Europe was going through an […]

  Six weeks before the killing of Osama Bin Laden, on 16 March 2011, CIA’s private contractor Raymond Davis, who had previously worked for Erik Prince’s infamous Blackwater security firm, was released from a prison in Lahore and was secretly flown to the US. On 27 January 2011, Raymond Davis had killed two armed men […]