Hasan Aftab Saeed

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Time to swap the arguments  Imam Khomeini (and later Benazir Bhutto to some extent) did a great disservice to politicians in the subcontinent, because now every ‘revolutionary’ wants a similar return where<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/16/when-the-shoe-is-on-the-other-foot/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Another great mystery of our timeIt was hardly rocket-science stuff, one would have thought. What with the quality of what passes for journalism in the Islamic Republic however – or are we witne

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A fond tributeThe standalone moustache has seen some dark days in its time. Though it never completely disappeared – and thank God for that – in certain places, times and professions i

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Method in the slowness? The British National Health Service (NHS) provides free healthcare to its patients. The flip side is that getting examined is often preceded by notoriously long waiting times. There’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/25/three-countries-three-systems/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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It’s beneath youThe thing with analogies is that they inevitably break down at some point – they must, because the two items involved aren’t exactly alike. That’s quite all right of course

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Simply put, best abstain!Somebody once remarked that no woman was good enough for a man, but that no man was good enough for a good woman. Please solve the riddle yourself. (I believe it was S

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The ‘liberal’ love for Nawaz SharifThis is not about the big fish: the NGO liberals, the ‘program’ liberals, the ‘activists’, etc, whose prosperity is closely linked with that of N

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Ten reasons why you could be smarter than owning a smartphone  I realise that ‘feature phone’ is the prevailing euphemism for dumb phones, but the very necessity of a euphemism here is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/21/dumb-is-the-new-smart/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Another enduring mythTwo verses of the Quran are usually cited by way of evidence for the so-called abrogation in the Quran. The application of the ‘principle’ is then shown by presenting

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A user’s manualMany people have written on Karl Marx’s 200th birth anniversary (which happened to be yesterday), but most of those writings have been too leaned; that is, they assume a cer

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And two other questions‘That Meesha Shafi decided to raise her voice in the face of such huge social and professional ramifications says a lot, doesn’t it?’ After duly congratulating her

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And do you hear when you ‘hear’?We all hear with our ears, of course. And see with our eyes. But the eye is not just a camera that merely transmits images, any more than the ear is simply