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Why Abuse Women when the Almighty Has Given Then Rights?

Mir Abas Most of the women in certain environments spend all their time in service of men especially their husbands ― making them breads, meal,...

Let’s Become Environmental Protectionists!

Dr. Shahid Amin Trali It’s very alarming to find the unending disturbances to our environment. Man’s foul play with the nature is not going well...

Towards a Happy and a Fulfilling Childhood

Naveed Shafi Khaja In our society children are considered as an inseparable part of individual and societal existence. A married couple without a child feels...

‘Oceans’ Inside Earth

BY IAN SIMPLE A small, battered diamond found in the gravel strewn along a shallow riverbed in Brazil has provided evidence of a vast “wet...

Ukraine: Caught Between Rival ‘Humanitarianisms’

BY KENAN MALIK When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected...

Realizing ‘Humanity’ Via Commodity

BY DR AKMAL HUSSAIN Over the last three centuries following the Industrial Revolution, the stress on the earth’s ecosystem has been building up and may...

Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath

By Ramzy Baroud Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli...

For Whom India Splits States

BY AJAY GUDAVARTHY Smaller States have been the new political mode of addressing basic issues that were otherwise left unresolved. However, fighting for a new...

Inviting Taliban to Cricket, Tea and Scones

  BY TALAT MASOOD Pakistan’s current leadership is, perhaps, unaware that when it shows camaraderie and weakness towards dealing with militants, it is sleepwalking the country...

We and the Critics

BY PAULO COELHO I am convinced that most of you also feel hurt when someone criticizes your work. Don’t take critics too seriously. They don’t...

Crimea Can’t Be Done in 21st Century: Can Iraq?

BY WILLIAM BLUM When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try...

A Welcome Judgment

BY ADVOCATE ZAHID ALI The guidelines recently provided by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court for applying Muslim Personal Law are proper, just and leading...

Economics Retold in Parable

BY COLIN COOK The Story of Munnies and Wallies The population is divided in two: five per cent are Munnies, the other 95 per cent Wallies. ...

Anti-Terror Strategies in Muslim World

BY MUHAMMAD AMIR RANA A transnational approach, flexible operational frameworks and interagency collaboration between traditional law enforcement agencies and other government institutions are considered the...

Inspiring Change

BY LYDIA JAMES When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery City in 1955, at the height of racial...

‘Akhand Bharat Ki Tehreek Pakistan Sey Chal Rahi Hai’

BY AAKAR PATEL For someone who speaks a lot, Narendra Modi reveals very little about his actual views. He has preferred not to be interviewed...

Atheist Ghazi

BY NASEER AHMED I was among a privileged few friends a self-proclaimed atheist invited to his wedding. The groom was ready to board a vehicle...

Tebbit Test as India’s Law of the Land

BY SHEKHAR GUPTA Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his residence, that...

Strangled By the Good Taliban-Bad Taliban Noose

BY ABBAS NASIR WHEN Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan makes statements such as a “majority of Taliban” are pro-Pakistan and pro-peace, who’d be surprised to find...

Netanyahu’s Anti-Iran, Anti-BDS Rant in US

BY DR LUDWIG WATZAL Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual...

Why Supporting Pak is Fun

BY ADITYA IYER Pakistan zindabad. There, I said it. Now sue me. Or do whatever you deem is right, just like you labelled those Kashmiri...

West’s Mad Remix of West Asia

BY ROBERT FISK Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East. They always have been, of course. Ever since Mark Sykes and François...

Pakistan’s Bazaar Movement of 1977

BY TARIQ MAHMUD The month of March is a grim reminder of the events of 1977, which, in the ultimate, changed the course of the...

India: Driving into Disaster

BY PRAFUL BIDWAI ‘Scorched earth’ is the kindest phrase to describe the approach of the last budget (rather, vote-on-account) of India’s United Progressive Alliance in...

An Earth Rights Law

BY BRIAN LOFFLER Once in a lifetime a truly game-changing event reshapes global society. Think back to 1833 when the British Parliament finally bowed to...

An Outcast in India, Pak History

BY JAWED NAQVI India’s feisty Dalit leader Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar scarcely finds place in our historical consciousness, having been airbrushed from much of the discourse...

Did Pak Need the US, or Vice Versa?

  BY SHAHID JAVED BURKI Pakistan, ever reliant on external financial assistance, faces a very different international situation as the government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz...

Welcome to Wonderland

BY FARHANA QAZI Visiting Kashmir was like slipping down the rabbit hole. Like Alice, who was surprised by talking birds and beasts in Wonderland, I...

Fallacious ‘Choice’ Argument in GM Crops Issue

BY COLIN TODHUNTER There is currently a battle waging across the planet over genetically modified (GM) crops. It seems like not a month goes by...

Entitlement by Privilege of Wealth

BY URVASHI BUTALIA My office is located in an urban village in the heart of Delhi. Originally surrounded by fields where people grew crops, these...

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