Hasan Aftab Saeed

Putting the record straight The polygamy debate has made yet another comeback, thanks to Iqrar Ul Hassan who is famous for fittingly titled Sar e Aam. Predictably the feminists are up-in-arms. Another<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/16/polygamy-in-islam/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Everything you wanted to know but were too shy to ask The title I originally had in mind was, ‘Numerology for idiots’, but I decided against it because of the far-too-real risk<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/09/numerology-101/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Students: please don’t read Tomorrow is World Teachers’ Day and… heck, who am I kidding! – it’s months away. Well, no matter, for any time’s a good time to talk about teaching,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/02/a-concise-guide-for-young-teachers/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Only when in governmentIs there such a creature? Here’s a quick look back at the major political players of the last fifty years, so that we may have the necessary perspective to answer this

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Even by his own lofty standards When Nawaz Sharif demands to know why he was ousted for the third time from the prime minister’s office, one feels it would be impossible to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/12/nine-times-nawaz-sharif-was-too-cute/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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One of the major weaknesses of contemporary educationHaving seen at close quarters university students (both undergrad and postgrad), many of whom are fresh high school graduates, I can summar

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A word on their relationship In Muslim literature and discourse the two words frequently appear together, often in the form of a compound (Quran-o-hadees). For Muslims, the Quran occupies a unique position<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/19/quran-and-hadees/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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A concise introductionThe Pakistani weddings are great affairs provided you are blessed with infinite patience. Even better if you are not weighed down with mundane matters such as earning a l

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Not even closeHe has a habit of proposing marriage in mysterious circumstances. He habitually ties the knot at the most inopportune of times politically (if there’s ever an opportune moment

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Or how the Prophetic (PBUH) narrations get misunderstood‘Deeds depend upon intentions; and every person will get rewarded according to what he has intended.’ While this does happen to be t

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All you needed to know, and moreThe other day I happened to mention ‘existentialism’ in a company of a dozen men; and realised to my horror that only a solitary figure showed any signs of

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How love makes the world go roundLove makes the world go round. Well, Madonna seems to believe so, and far be it from the author to question the expert opinion of the world’s foremost author