Cycle Of Failure: Why Is Pakistan Unable To Fulfill Its Economic Potential?
For many in Pakistan, there is one reason for the country’s perennial laggardness – corruption. These Pakistanis blame the cupidity...
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Perspective
Inspired By Obscurantism: Are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan And Imran Khan Ideological Brothers?
About a century ago, the father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, turned the country into a modern secular nation...
How Accurate Is It To Compare PM Imran Khan’s Agenda With That Of General Zia-ul-Haq?
Many detractors of Prime Minister Imran Khan have been accusing him of following General Zia-ul-Haq's policies. They claim that extreme...
US Democracy Brought To The Brink
It seemed like a scene from Paris of 1789, when an angry, unruly mob stormed the Bastille prison and freed...
Are Motivational Speakers Just Modern-Day Snake Oil Peddlers?
Pakistanis spend a lot of time reacting on religious issues. I do not blame them, for their spirituality and sexuality...
Hot Air: Pakistani Public Discourse Is Loud But Lacks Vision
Recently, TV news analyst and journalist Hasan Nisar, publicly expressed that “Anyone mentioning democracy should be dealt by a firing...
Why The IJT Finds It Difficult To Escape Its Association With Violence
In the course of the 74-year history of Pakistan, we see that despite having different ethnicities from the same religion,...
Who’s Afraid Of Judge Ayesha Malik: Seniority As An Outdated Principle
Once again Pakistan stands on the edge of making history by appointing Justice Ayesha Malik as the first female Supreme...
What Holds My Village In Balochistan Back From Achieving Its Educational Potential
Herronk, a village some 60 km from Turbat city, has a population of more than 10,000 people. Although the villagers...
Parity Not Partition: The Vision That Drove Mr. Jinnah’s Politics
I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a...
Fundamentalisms And Bigotry Could Take India And Pakistan To A Common Destiny Of Despair
Pakistan’s Islamist and India’s secular experiments both turned out to be failures. In the case of Pakistan, the modernist form...
Khaled Hosseini’s Depiction Of The Plight Of Afghan Women Remains Painfully Relevant
Khaled Hosseini, a famous Afghani novelist, migrated to the United States of America in 1980 after the Soviet military intervention....
Taking Stock Of The Pakistani Christian Experience This Christmas
A few years ago, I intended to walk into the Christmas season with fresh ambitions, and dreams. However, I was...
An Ill-Fated Merger: The Pitfalls Of Sacralising The Secular In India And Pakistan
Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not...
Fires Of Fanaticism – And How We Might Put Them Out
Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own...
Fear This Fire: It Is No Ordinary One
Days after a deranged mob of at least 4,000 people in Charsadda set a police station on fire for refusing...
Gladly Becoming The Other: The Oddities Of Self-Orientalism
In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West...
Pakistan’s Two Biggest Political Leaders And Their Revolutionary Pretensions
In the post-Musharraf period, Pakistani politicians have been behaving as if they are revolutionaries. Their self image as political radicals...
Playing The Fiddle While Dhaka Burned: How We Ended Up With A Leftover Pakistan
16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a...
Can ‘Khel Khel Mein’ Help Us Come To Terms With The Injustices And Trauma From 1971?
Brothers were separated. Both the Eastern and Western wings of the country were stained by blood. Relations between them changed:...
How Interference ‘From The Top’ Unfairly Distorts The State Bank’s Performance Grading For Staff
Aslam Khan, an Assistant Director in State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), is visibly very happy. His hard work throughout the...
Impunity For Religiously-Charged Mobs Is Now An Old Problem For Pakistan
The riled-up mob was chanting. They wanted to avenge themselves on him, they wanted him to come outside. Locked up...
While Bollywood Toes The Hindu Nationalist Line, South Indian Cinema Takes Up The Real Issues
India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social...
Another Route To China: Can CPEC Open Up More Secure Alternatives To The Khunjerab Pass?
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a very well-thought-out and executed project. The various road networks – many of...
Foucault’s Political Spirituality, Punjab And TLP
Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to...
Talking Across The Barbed Wire: Are Two Rivals Entering A New Era Of Military Communication?
One of the remarkably depressing features of the Pakistan-India military equation is the absence of any effective and elaborate structures...
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Is Russia Going To Invade Ukraine?
The world is on the brink of another...
Taliban 2.0 Is No Different: The Sooner We Understand This, The Better
Novelist Khalid Hosseini beautifully described the first regime...
