The Willing Contender: A Case For Renewing Radical Muslim Modernism
The Rise and Demise of Muslim Modernism The breakup of Pakistan in December 1971 produced a ‘New Pakistan.’ ZA. Bhutto, ...
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Romanticising Irrationality: A Ruinous Idea
Nietzsche’s Hammer Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...
One Step Towards A People’s History Of Pakistan
Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...
Why Abul Kalam Azad And Hussain Ahmad Madani Were Not Convinced About Pakistan
North India’s Persian- and Urdu-speaking aristocracy and literati, known as the Ashraafia or noble-born of putative foreign ancestors, was overly ...
A Short History Of Ahmadi Persecution
The most terrible blot on our country’s fair name is the injustice perpetrated against Pakistan’s tiny Ahmadi community which has ...
The Narrative Of The Pakistan Movement – In Bullet Points
In 1995, I appeared for the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education(FBISE) exams for overseas Pakistani students in the ...
Partition Stories: An Amritsar Tragedy
This is a sad tale. A tale of an unfortunate woman. A tale to reaffirm that life is not fair; ...
1971: A Personal Account Of The Year Pakistan Broke Apart – I
Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...
How Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar Came To Be Known As A ‘Man Of Honour’
A car drives down a dusty road in Sargodha district and stops at a little village. From the car alights ...
Student Politics In Pakistan: From Revolution To Restriction – And A Possible Revival
At the time of Pakistan’s creation in 1947, the only established student organisation was the Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the ...
Tragedy Foretold: Three Fatal Decisions That Led To The 1971 Conflict
The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question: ...
Looking For A Centre: The PML-N’s Roots And Evolving Ideological Trajectory
The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Maulana To Mao-Lana And Beyond: Bhashani’s Dream
Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...
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 ...
Maududi’s Leviathan: From A Political Ambition To A Cultural Pursuit
The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse ...
Roots Of Rage: How Barelvi Militancy Became A Mass Political Force
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) did not emerge from a vacuum. The roots of the party lie in how Sunni Barelvi ...
A Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism And The Achievement Of The Separate State Of Pakistan
More than seven decades after the creation of Pakistan, the rise of Muslim separatism in South Asia and the circumstances ...
Examining The RSS Chief’s New Stance On Hindu-Muslim Communal Relations
The history of Hindu-Muslim animosity is quite old now: and at the very least, it can be traced from the ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Charity Isn’t Just About Giving, It Is About Creating A Community
It’s 2005. The world is reeling from the...
Gen Bajwa Asked Allies To Oppose No-Confidence Move Against Imran, Hamid Mir Claims
TV anchor and long time journalist Hamid Mir...