Wajid Shamsul Hasan

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A 90th-birthday tributePakistani politics— an exclusively man’s world— is outrageously discriminatory against women. Pakistan’s founder Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah  had time and agai

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You can distort but never change history Divine justice is defined as the constant and unchanging will of God to give everyone what is due to him or her. Unfortunately, it has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/01/lest-its-forgotten/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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And the threat religious bigots pose to the stateAs we leave behind apprehensions regarding the possible ides of March, on the 23rd of March in 1940 All-India Muslim League adopted what has come t

The need to separate religion from politicsThe other day voices were heard in the British Parliament regarding the sad plight of minorities in Pakistan following recent incidents of killing of mem

A pedigreed descendent of great Kurdish warrior Ghazi Salahuddin Ayubi, Begum Nusrat Bhutto proved her noble blood lineage by becoming crusader for democracy against two military dictators, one more r

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? What did Benazir Bhutto stand and struggle for all her life?Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression, empowerment of the people irrespect

Ever since the systematic distortion of Pakistan’s history after its inception--perhaps now we have entered its worst possible phase since many question the very vision of Pakistan’s fou

A cruel, cruel joke if there ever was one. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called the JIT probe into his alleged money laundering trail a joke when he was visiting London for his Eid celebrat

While we gloat over our successes against terrorism, terrorists make a laughing stock out of us by striking wherever and whenever it pleases them. Zarb-e-Azb – under former Army Chief General Raheel<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/07/01/the-taste-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Panama leaks exposed many leaders involved in corruption around the world. Some of them sought the honourable way and resigned from their public offices.   In contradiction to both—democracy and freedom<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/22/the-gory-jit-saga/" title="Read more" >...</a>

There are yet sins the PML-N will come to rue We move from one crisis to another. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s judicial indictment was yet not over – it had just entered the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/11/after-the-withdrawal-there-is-a-lull/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Is Nemesis lurking around the corner?  Every cloud has a silver lining. In the case of the 4/20 judgment in Panama money laundering case, there is not only silver lining but whole