Reflections

My best friend at school, Ayesha, was the eldest among four siblings. Out of the four, she was the only...

A politician is elected to the country’s apex executive office. He faces grave corruption allegations during his first term. However,...

With a flare-up of violence once again between Israelis and Palestinians, my thoughts turned to those figures who could bridge...

"Why are you being hyper?" A dear friend from Lahore chided me one cold evening while we were chatting about...

Modern India is a land of dizzying contrasts. Indian scientists have developed plans to send satellites to Mars, while Indian...

Recently, I attended a lunch gathering hosted by a friend and his gracious wife at their residence. Dr. Abdullah is...

With millions of Indian and Pakistani film watchers and enthusiasts talking about Shahrukh Khan’s latest film Pathaan, I finally mustered...

Somewhere in a discussion about a crisis in contemporary art, an American art critic, Dave Hickey once said: "Criticism, at...

Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on the 1st of November. Danish social democrat prime minister Mette Frederiksen dissolved parliament...

General Pervez Musharraf held the dubious distinction of following in the footsteps of military dictators Ayub, Yahya and Zia. Like...

Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for...

Where do Muslims place themselves in the modern world? Looking at the general state of Muslims in the modern era,...

I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare,...

In what seems like a page out of a dystopian novel, Pakistani women are no strangers to abuse and toxic...

In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work. I was not...

This author spent his formative years within the walled city of Lahore. Recently, he visited Shah Alam Market on an...

Dr. Henry Kissinger, the scholar, statesman, political activist, author and professor at Harvard University, is today almost a hundred years...

As the world welcomes 2023, Pakistanis begin the new year with the same question in mind. It is neither a...

Remember your adolescence? Do you recall how often we would be (oh so) morbidly preoccupied with how we appeared to...

It can be perplexing to take a view of the rapid rise of the Arabs, beginning with the theological foundations...

During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by...

He could have been a hero in any romantic feature movie. Physically extremely smart, elegant and handsome with a soft...

Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, the iconic twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was brutally assassinated by the...

The biggest sporting event in the world has ended. The grand finale was played on Sunday, 18 December 2022, at...

At the end of last year, I tried assimilating a common theme into my routine: leave it in 2021. It...

Pakistan has a substantial coastline along the Indian Ocean Rim and from time immemorial what are now its southern provinces...