Tag: western

A mindful reader, prior to reading the next paragraphs, might ask to summarise William Jones’ profile before his voyage to ...

After World War II, the world experienced enormous growth driven by rampant consumerism and the growth of faith in free ...

On 10 December 2022, the newspaper headline read, “India stands isolated at UN Security Council (UNSC) during its Presidency.” The ...

An influential Iranian historian of Islamic political thought, Hamid Inayat, had opined in one of his books that Muslims had ...

The US and Israel have long claimed to have serious concerns about Iranian scientific research and military activities, and have ...

I do not know much about the Pakistani film Joyland except that it has received rave reviews outside Pakistan but ...

From 16 to 22 October, the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its 20th National Congress. The aim was not ...

The title story of Julien’s short story collection Derrida Haramda! introduces us to Shahid Wirk (or, as he is lovingly ...

Anyone familiar with desi cuisine would recognise the unique combination of spices that goes into it: zeera (cumin), turmeric (haldi), ...

From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates ...

Perhaps one of the most significant developments in the world today is the emergence of International Law and its formal ...

In literature, Existentialism starts from Dostoyevsky’s famous maxim that “if God is dead then all is permitted.” Existentialism registers the ...

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (It is sweet and proper to die for one's country) Migration is a ...

On the 27th of March, addressing a large gathering of his supporters, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan waved ...

Pakistan launched its first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) earlier this year, which purports to be citizen-centric and claims that the ...

At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...

The relentless attack by Russia on Ukraine has reproduced scenes for anyone familiar with 21st century news: intense bombardment, resistance ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

Al Jazeera recently published an article on the double standards and racism associated with the outpouring sympathy for Ukraine, that ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Russia just has to be one of the most surreal events in international diplomacy. ...

Syed Sher Shah was born around 1844 in the walled city of Lahore in Mohalla Sathan, Kucha Loon Chakhan inside ...

Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to ...

In the past four decades, Pakistan has been relegated from the USA’s sweetheart in the 1980s to a bitter old ...

Last week, the Taliban took over the Afghan capital and with it, they have extended their control to the majority ...