Monday, May 13, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
The election is over. The results have come in and the PML-N is leading by a clear mandate. Having stating the obvious, this perhaps was expected. All opinion polls and surveys suggested it. But, yes a mandate this clear was not ...

Monday, May 06, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
Battles, wars and competition all have one thing in common. It is an inevitability which is the basis of any battle, war or competition. Someone loses and someone wins. The victory of one is always the loss of another, and the loss ...

Monday, April 29, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
The funeral prayer of Hamza Ahmed, the seventeen year old who was shot and killed by the security guard of another student, was held at a mosque in the Defence area of the city. There were tears all around; it was an unfortunate ...

Monday, April 15, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
The slender young woman is slouched over the kitchen stove, sprinkling spices into the simmering water and stirring a pot with one shaking hand. Every now and then she stops cooking, puts her palms on the kitchen table and starts ...

Monday, April 08, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
What gives an individual act the worth required to be transfixed with an adjective as reverent as ‘great’? Is it some innate moral value the act must possess, some ethical obligation it must meet or is it a matter of the deed in ...

Saturday, April 06, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
That is not a critique on their respectability, they are fine institutions in their own right, but an entire generation ranks them above the only institution that can provide grass roots accessibility and a personal stake in deciding ...

Friday, April 05, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
KARACHI: A report has recently come to my attention surveying the new generation of Pakistani youth, their political and economic contexts, their opinions and their role in the upcoming elections. As part of that generation and ...

Friday, April 05, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
A report has recently come to my attention surveying the new generation of Pakistani youth, their political and economic contexts, their opinions and their role in the upcoming elections. As part of that generation and someone who ...

Monday, April 01, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
As with any electoral system, one of the major tools at the disposal of a political opponent is qualification, on merit, for holding public office. The same is also true for work spaces and mass media. If you want to discredit ...

Monday, March 25, 2013
Ali Moeen Nawazish
In an unusual turn of events, there’s an awful lot of hope going around Pakistan these days. Despite the security situation, the targeted violence against religious minorities, economic problems, and electricity and gas shortages, ...