Pakistan, July 9 -- For nearly five decades, I have called Lalazar my home. I was born in this very house on Aslam Shaheed Road and have witnessed the evolution of this once-beautiful locality. Lalaza... Read More
Pakistan, July 9 -- Thinking about summer afternoons brings back old memories, making me smile without even realising it. Childhood, curiosity, and my growing list of questions. Long summer holidays a... Read More
Pakistan, July 9 -- Imran Khan, the cricket icon-turned-populist prime minister, now sits behind bars, his dramatic fall from grace shaped not by conspiracy but by a string of miscalculations, polaris... Read More
Pakistan, July 9 -- Undoubtedly, Pakistan has long contended with Indian hostility. There is no need to recount the communal slaughters of 1947, India's reneging on commitments regarding Kashmir and i... Read More
Pakistan, July 9 -- Indian media and defence commentators have recently begun referring to the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May as merely a "skirmish" a transparent attempt to downp... Read More
Pakistan, July 8 -- Ilan Pappe commands immense respect for his body of work including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024). In reachi... Read More
Pakistan, July 8 -- The idea of balkanising Pakistan-splitting it into smaller ethnic or regional states-has periodically resurfaced in public discourse, often fuelled by ethnic grievances, economic d... Read More
Pakistan, July 8 -- In a recent talk given by noted journalist and intellectual Wajahat Masood at the Pakistani Al-Mawrid Society on 21 May 2025, he meandered from one event to another, making peculia... Read More
Pakistan, July 7 -- The almost 1,350-year-old refusal of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), to pledge allegiance to the unjust and incompetent ruler Yazid was an act with monum... Read More
Pakistan, July 7 -- It was a very hot afternoon in summer. The heat was so strong that even crickets left their nests. I got off the school bus, looked around, and started walking. Usually, the bus wo... Read More