Hasan Aftab Saeed

Which way to go? There’s no dearth of vociferous advocates of either system. One side insists that we can take a giant leap forward by adopting the presidential system, minimising t

The science versus religion debate revisitedThe more things change the more they remain the same. Since it’s the same old issues that people keep debating over and over, the radio-telescopic

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Forty years on To glorify and fondly remember Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has been fashionable for many years now, especially on and around his birth and death anniversaries. It is customary, on

There’s no such thing as being ‘completely neutral’ There’s this position that is very fashionable in atheistic circles these days. It was probably there all along; but because it

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No realistic cure in sightYet another man has succumbed to the vagaries of street justice. This time it was Associate Professor Khalid Hameed of S. E. College Bahawalpur, who was stabbed dead by o

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PowerPoint in education was a bad ideaThe late Mr Hashmi (may God bless his soul) of Sadiq Public School was aware of the educative value of writing things down. Of course, 1988 belonged to the pr

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Some observationsIt caught one completely off-guard because by the time one realised there could be trouble ahead, there was no turning back. That’s what happened to the author on Friday near

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Positives that justify celebrationMany positives have emerged out of the latest standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbours, but not necessarily the ones being pointed out by those with the

Including a brief history of private interpretationAll books are composed of statements that are explicit and statements that are con-similar (or implicit). An explicit statement is one about

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Why we need more, not less, literature in schoolsSomething that stands out in most interactions one has with people these days is how little they have been exposed to good literature. In discu

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Some enduring misconceptionsSome of the more spiritual souls among us are often critical of paradise and its rewards. The general criticism targets the very concepts of reward and punishment.

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Some practical reasonsUnbeknownst to many mortals of today, Aristotle had proved once for all – many centuries ago – that the study of philosophy was necessary; and to date, nobody has eve