Yasser Latif Hamdani

Lahore High Court’s recent decision ordering the government to make a policy teaching Holy Quran as mandatorily a separate subject in schools is deeply problematic not just in terms of judicial overreach but the Pandora’s box it opens. This has been done under Article 31 of the Constitution, which is a principle of policy. Principles […]

Last week I attended a “National Seminar” on Human Rights to commemorate the Human Rights Day. Members of the National Assembly and Punjab Provincial Assembly attended this seminar and spoke for 15 to 20 minutes congratulating themselves on the enormous success Pakistan has brought about in human rights. First and foremost, their speeches were replete […]

The biggest lie that we often tell ourselves is that religious minorities are equal citizens of this country. There is not even a pretense of equality beyond a single line in the Constitution’s Article 25(1) more conspicuous by how much it is flouted than its implementation. Our leaders say that minorities are better treated in […]

Let me start by saying I am no public health policy expert and my musings are simply based on what I have observed as a layman. No reasonable person can actually believe the numbers that the Government has been putting out since the start of the Pandemic. When the Government wants to lower the numbers, […]

Another week another Ahmadi dead! The slow burn genocide of this community, which is by far the most patriotic community in Pakistan- a searing irony-, continues.  This time it was a young doctor who had dedicated himself to the welfare of poor people at Nankana sb. He was a victim of a Kill-a-Kafir and earn […]

Trump is finally out. Four years of comedy have finally ended. How do we look back at Trump presidency? Of course we will miss him because he was the most entertaining head of state in history. That some of his policies helped the Economy cannot be denied. However United States of America, that great experiment […]

As usual there is nothing positive to report from this the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Week after week it is the same story. We find a way to stoop lower in terms of just common decency. The Arzoo case is most tragic. The 13 year old Christian girl was first abducted from her house and […]

Much hullabaloo has been made about the arrest of Captain Safdar in Karachi. That it was politically motivated is true. After all there is absolutely nothing wrong with chanting “vote koizzat do” (Give respect due to the vote) next to sarcophagus of Jinnah who spent most of political career as an elected member of the […]

Dr Abdus Salam was possibly the greatest Pakistani since 1947. Not only was he one of the greatest physicists in the world, hewas alsothe founder of SUPARCO and PAEC. While he was much bigger than the idea of an atomic bomb, his contribution to Pakistan’s nuclear program was certainly much greater than the metallurgist who […]

Mr Jinnah is an extraordinary person in history, no matter how you look at it. For 38 years after partition, there was extreme nationalist propaganda about him both in Pakistan and India – in Pakistan he is presented as a champion of Islam and in India he is a villain of all villains. All of […]