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 state and reconstructing on a more sustainable democratic content are undoubtedly two different issues all together. One does not automatically promise the other, if there is anything to learn from […]
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 into a dangerous ideological and political metamorphosis that could tear it apart. This is not a false alarm. It is getting clearer by the day that the Taliban, with […]
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 have the power to make (or to avoid) someone buying a book, a CD, or to go to an exhibition. Don’t give them the importance they don’t have. They are […]
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 putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture. The United States strives for world domination, hegemony wherever possible, their main occupation […]
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 to the right conclusion. The ruling in Masrat Begum versus Abdul Rashid Khan and Others pertained to the issue of maintenance of divorced wives. In the ruling, Justice Ali Mohammad Magray said […]
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. The Wallies are the ones that make the ‘stuff’ and provide the ‘services’ that everybody needs. The Munnies are the ones that organize it all – they manage and […]
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 essential components of an effective counterterrorism policy. A successful counterterrorism model is still a work in progress. Countries continue to improve their national security policies by learning from the best […]
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 segregation in the US, she had no idea of the impact her spontaneous action would have. Others had done the same before, but by challenging the ‘laws of segregation’ during […]
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 by the press to the extent that a leader of his position should be open to doing, though he isn’t alone here. The two Gandhis and the chief ministers of […]
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 for the ceremonial journey to his bride’s home when the lines of a wanwun (traditional Kashmiri lyrics sung by women at marriages) stopped him in his tracks: sabz dastaras khuda chui raazi, pakistanuk […]