The panacea is in wisdom, not in emotions on April 24, 2020The government has recently decided to conditionally allow congregational prayers in mosques during the holy month of Ramadan. The decision was made during a meeting that involved religious scholars and top government officials chaired by President Arif Alvi in Islamabad. An agreement was reached to conditionally allow prayers in congregation, and Taraweeh — special night […]
How to spend time by staying indoors on April 20, 2020People often ask me what good it does to a person who self-distances himself from his social circle, as we are now forced to do in this pandemic. My answer is that by distancing oneself socially, one avoids the risk of catching or spreading coronavirus to others, and this in either case is a good […]
The World after Coronavirus Pandemic on April 12, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has hardly begun, and speculations are rife as to what would be its consequences after its ravages are over. I think it is yet too early to anticipate its effects on the geo- politics of the world, because nothing can be said at this stage with any degree of certainty as to […]
Conspiracy Theory in Science on April 9, 2020Recently, former ambassador of Pakistan to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, has appeared on the web with a video recording in which he stated that the COVID-19 pandemic was not a natural epidemic but invented in a laboratory as a part of a heinous conspiracy involving Israel, the US and Europe to stop the fast […]
New global challenge on April 5, 2020So far, the most lethal weapons which have the capacity to obliterate human race from the surface of the earth are hydrogen and atom bombs, but the people have never truly felt their danger as acutely and as imminently as they have felt a danger from a virus which is a non-living genetic element and […]
The king without kingdom on March 28, 2020This world is full of strange people whose thinking, personality and habits are very different from normal people. Such people remain in seclusion and seldom come into limelight. One such person is The Dalai Lama who has been the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism and traditionally has been responsible for the governing of Tibet, until […]
Sufi of whirling darveshes on March 24, 2020Since my childhood, not a day went by when I did not hear the mention of Moulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s name with a lot of love and respect from my parents, teachers and friends, and it was natural that for such a towering personality I drew close to him, and took a keen interest in his […]
Was Iqbal against scientific enlightenment on March 12, 2020I love Professor Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an eminent physicist of Pakistan, for being generally objective and rational, in his analysis of social issues. But unfortunately he suffers from a bias against anybody who for some reasons says something against science. This is against the norms of fair criticism. A few days ago,I happened to watch […]
Arundhati Roy’s Clark Lecture 2020 on March 1, 2020In the murky environment of every ruthless state, there are always some sane voices which keep speaking against the repressive acts and policies of the state so valiantly and fearlessly that the state is afraid of taking action against such a person for fear of strong public reaction against the government. The only such woman […]
The beginning of the end on February 16, 2020It is the principle of nature that the forces of repression and violence do not stay for long. It is universally known that the rise to power of the Bharatia Janata Party in 2019 in General Elections was not due to any radical programme of reforms for the up-lift of the common man, but it […]