Hasan Aftab Saeed

Zia-ul-Haq’s legacy is alive and kicking Being a husband was hardly a piece of cake at the best of times. But it may have just got a whole lot more perilous, thanks<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/29/islam-needs-to-be-saved-from-muslims/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Some perennial criticismsMuch is said on the media (often justifiably so) about the Muslims’ unhealthy nostalgic yearnings and reverence for their past heroes. On the other hand, mention of

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With an earnest attempt to answer them The other day, ‘Imam’ Abdullah Bin Moneeb, via a video released from an undisclosed location, declared himself the eleventh rightly guided caliph (khalifa-e-rashid) of Islam.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/14/two-questions-regarding-the-end-times/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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#FarewellCricket #WellPlayedGreenShits Since as far back as I can recall, what has consistently been testing the collective intellect of this nation has been the perennial question of which team must beat which<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/01/playing-1980s-cricket-in-2018/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Or is it a passing phase? At a wedding last month, it occurred to me that evolution, after millennia of success, may finally be running out of steam; in fact, it may<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/24/evolution-gone-wrong/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Another age-old conundrum What do Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Byron, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Bergson,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/10/where-have-all-the-female-sages-been-hiding/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Or what makes liquor a moral issue I am sure Ali Amin Gandapur and Sharjeel Inam Memon have excellent reasons for keeping honey in liquor bottles, and those will be extremely instructive<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/03/honey-and-olive-oil-in-grey-goose-bottles/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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On faulty questions and the need to agree on meanings of wordsThe more things change, the more they remain the same. This is especially true of discussions on metaphysics or religion, which, t

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For depicting the desi liberals in their true lightImran Khan, now Prime Minister Khan, has taken oath of his new office. Winning the ultimate prize after being ridiculed, written-off, and cha

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It’s comingWarning: satire ahead. The author bears absolutely no responsibility in the event of it being taken up by one or more of our eminent think-tanks.Sometimes it looks imminent, s

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And why that’s soIt’s one of the hallmarks of thoughtful people that either they think long and hard about a problem before taking a position on it; or else they take a position first and

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Past, present and prognosisPeople have all sorts of views on the institution of democracy as a way of running a society. To some, it leads to a government of the people, by the people,