Askari Raza Malik

Dragging the Quaid into politicsIt was around midnight 23/24 November 1971 when the four of us landed at Karachi on our way to Colombo and onward to the erstwhile East Pakistan. We had about e

Has justice been seen to be done?Justice is the jugular vein of a society. It must exist with all its sinews and be made visible with all its transparency.  If justice delayed is justice deni

Egos were involved The short order of the ‘special court trying Musharraf left many questions unanswered. The detailed order that followed had no ambiguity as to the intent and purp

The aim must be to achieve the Riasat-e-Madina Inertia is a ‘property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless that

The march is against accountability Hazrat Ali (RA) said, “The richest person is he who has knowledge and wisdom, and the poorest is the ignorant who does not even know that people laugh at

Fifth-generational methods may be neededAn expectant nation waited for days before PM Imran Khan’s maiden speech at the UN General Assembly. A young anchorperson said that towards the end hi

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first”. (Ronald Reagan). That defines the universal character of poli

The option of political agitation holds little promise.Whether the opposition is united or not, only time would tellPeople are too busy with everyday problems for agitatioWhether the o

An incoherent philosophyMost Pakistanis are Muslims by faith, spiritual by default. Superstition appears as spiritualism to the uninitiated. The conceptual uniqueness of unity in Islam however