Hasan Aftab Saeed

The best-laid plans of mice and men… Invisible forces? Horse-trading? Conscience call? Mistrust of leadership? Aik Zardari sab pe bhaari? Everybody has his own theory regarding what went wr

Their strengths and weaknesses The PPP and the PML-N will likely be led in the 2020s by new leadership. The transition will be comparatively easy for the two parties because in Pakist

A misconceptionEngland’s Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid take their religion seriously. So it is that moments before the champagne corks popped, the duo could be seen slipping away from their team

Imran Khan’s toughest test yet Shopkeepers are the same everywhere. And it doesn’t matter what lofty name– trader, businessman, dealer, distributor, mill-owner, supplier– a sh

‘Deep’ thoughts that undo themselves These are gems that are presented to demonstrate unparalleled sagacity on the part of the utterer. They are often employed as weapons to hit t

And why Sarfaraz doesn’t cut it By all accounts, Sarfaraz Ahmed is a good human being. A nice, humble, down-to-earth guy, whom any decent man would wish well. That said, I am unawar

Addressing an oft-repeated criticism There’s a view of God and religion that has traditionally been very popular among anthropologists. It goes something like this: primitive man di

Some observations on the God debate For a group that believes He doesn’t even exist, atheists are awfully obsessed with God. Being a member of many religion and philosophy pages on

What went wrongBy most accounts, Game of Thrones has ended on a very disappointing note. All great lives have quiet spells; all great books have uneventful passages. Indeed, in literature and

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On Lawrence Krauss’s Universe from Nothing After ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ arguably the most fundamental question that has ever been contemplated by humans i

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Why one must solely employ Quranic arguments All of us, at one time or another, have been asked to account for our religion. The occasion may be a question from a curious non-Muslim t

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A dollop of nostalgia and a dash of hope As a rule, nostalgia is a counter-productive emotion. That’s because it has its roots in a selective recalling of good and bad memories from