Yasser Latif Hamdani

Pakistanis when questioned internationally about the blasphemy law in the country – the only blasphemy law in the world that prescribes death penalty for spoken or written word- often come up with the utterly misleading defence that this is a colonial era law. Blame thus is laid at the door of the British Raj. Since […]

While the powers that be and politicians fight for the control of the state, there are festering wounds in our body politic that remain unaddressed. Real issues are persistently ignored and swept under the carpet with devastating results. On Friday yet another Ahmadi “place of worship” was desecrated by the state in Bahawalpur. Countless individuals […]

As Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s so called Azadi March fast approaches, it is important for both PMLN and PPP to recall the historical antecedents of the Maulana and his party. His father Maulana Mufti Mahmood was a leading light of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind and one of the most firebrand opponents of the Muslim League and the Pakistan […]

Narendra Modi and Imran Khan are both “good friends” of Trump and like the big man himself both are full of bluster and hot air. I venture to opine that Imran Khan’s speech at the UNGA will come to haunt us again and again. In essence he admitted the most common charge against Muslims in […]

It is an article of faith with Indians – entirely ignorant of historical facts- that Pakistanis propounded the so-called hostage theory i.e. minorities on both sides would be hostages to the good behavior of their co-religionists where they were in a majority. It is an incredible historical fraud to claim that Pakistanis propounded any such […]

Lawyers, historians and political scientists often have to deal with ideas that do not fit the Occam’s razor test and whose nuance is often overlooked by a person unwilling to properly consider their merits. This article deals with an idea I am not entirely at home with but one that is so fascinating that it […]

India’s attempt at moon landing came to an unfortunate end last week and that some how was a cause for glee for many of us in Pakistan. So acerbic is our relationship especially in the backdrop of Kashmir that we take every failure of India to be a personal success. Still we have to admit […]

At the cost of repeating myself, it is important to state certain basic facts at the outset. Jinnah was the only politician to be called the Best Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity and once stated frankly that he was an Indian first second and last. This was how it was for most of his career […]