Accountability for all
The people of Pakistan need a better perspective on world events The press and the people of Pakistan, and the US have, each separately, been following the sordid woes of the ruling…
Once upon a time, there was a goose
Making discrimination easier and differences prominent The Nazi regime in Hitler’s Germany barred Jews from holding public office, and from marrying persons of another race. Later of course many Jews were shot,…
An autopsy does not prevent murder
Nor does poverty, it would appear, preserve good sense in political leadership There’s a photograph of the man who can do no wrong, the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, his wife, the Belgian…
The various outposts of tyranny
A little sickening all around Political doublespeak is sickening. And Republican doublespeak doubly so, not that Democrats are much better. But in this truly nauseating respect they stink a little less.…
More pious than the pope?
What are our laws achieving today? The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) believed in and lived up to everything God taught him, the teachings of Islam. Seeing that all but one chapter of…
The plague in Karachi
The mind boggling idea of plague in Karachi There’s a story about a wife who tots up her husband’s total spending on beer for twenty years and tells him he could…
No success without accountability
Greased palms make the world go round When members of the National Assembly gathered on Friday the 26th of May this year to hear the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announce the Federal…
Calling a spade a spade
Sometimes it really is black and white One gets used to hypocrisy being a sizeable factor in politics, but sometimes things get nauseating. Obviously, this refers to Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi…
Calling a spade a spade
Sometimes it really is black and white One gets used to hypocrisy being a sizeable factor in politics, but sometimes things get nauseating. Obviously, this refers to Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi…
If these walls could speak, what stories would they tell?
The IVS: an analogy for Pakistan The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi is a singularity. It stands in the midst of Karachi, another singularity, both of them not…
How many of us believe in germs?
Or science, for that matter. It is a truth universally acknowledged that any person in possession of a mind should not be wanting in education. There is a lot that is…
A maelstrom of gobbledegook
A circus of religious terminology and manipulation Sadiq (the truthful) and Ameen (the trustworthy) were the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s attributes, because he was eminently truthful and trustworthy. They became some of the…
When talk is cheap and action non-existent
Because what can you say in the face of Mardan? Sometimes things are bleak beyond tears. The brutal, horrific murder of young Mashal, a student at Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, is…
The non-existent queue
One step forward, two steps back A visit to a hospital is never a pleasure, but the reason for that absence of pleasure ought to be the illness that brings a person…
“Let us walk the road of peace” – Bulleh Shah
What is achieved by arresting random persons and maltreating them? Gangs of sex criminals have sexually abused both children and adults in Kasur for at least as far back as 2009. …
The wall, the ban and the world
When no place is homogeneously composed of its original people, is exclusivity possible? There’s a message doing the rounds on social media for the past few days. It says: ‘Standing on…