Sabbah Uddin

Those who have read Iqbal-e-Lahori, can never ignore his expressive, powerful and stirring poetry through which our founding father besides guiding the nation on numerous aspects, has also stripped off the cloak to expose the real character of a Mullah. Iqbal’s uncompromising rejection of mullahs, their interference in the society, their domination of the religious […]

Once upon a good time there was a concept of a solid nation state holding good for about two centuries. However, the first two decades of the 21st century saw the tight fixture of nation-state being unwound, ravaged, challenged, and stretched to test the mettle it is made of- a proof of time. This happens […]

In my earlier column “Rapprochement of convenience” (published July 15, 2019), I mentioned a report titled “Mapping Global Future Report of National Intelligence Council”. It was produced by ‘National Intelligence Council – 2020 Project and published in 2004asthe council’s third unclassified report. The document was thought to be a reasonable forecast which gave an excellent […]

Why are we taxed? Well, because governments have developmental and non-developmental plans and both require funds for execution. In non-developmental expenditures government has to spend on social sector for those who cannot afford even the bare minimum necessities of life. Islam has set a golden principle in taxation, “it is taken from rich and spent […]

Assassination of General Qasim Soleimani was the best plan for Americans. His killing was both legitimate as well as necessary.That is how Donald Trump and his confederates are trying to convince Americans and world at large.The company (a synonym used for CIA) was planning thispreemptive attack since long.It must have taken few months of planning […]

On 30 October 2019,Kingdom of Thailand became the latest country to publish and adopt their National Action Plan (NAP) on Business Human Rights (BHRs).Thai government started to work on the BHR NAP in 2016, almost at the same time when government of Pakistan announced its own NAP on the subject. Few days back I was […]