Thursday, August 27, 2009
Yasser Latif Hamdani
Jaswant Singh's 670-page book on Pakistan's founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, has reignited the debate on Partition. From an academic point of view, however, he doesn't seem to have said anything out of the ordinary. Much of this ...

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Yasser Latif Hamdani
The violation of Pakistani air space by Indian jets recently has given everyone a lot to be excited about. Everyone from every walk of life has had an opinion about it. Still it was when I saw a senior corporate lawyer suddenly ...

Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Yasser Latif Hamdani
I write to you as a Pakistani who has always wished for peace and prosperity of the entire subcontinent. We may not see eye to eye on history, but violence between Pakistan and India negates the raison d'etre of Pakistan. That is ...

Friday, October 31, 2008
Yasser Latif Hamdani
Between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea there are countless ways of describing the stark Catch 22 situation in which we in Pakistan are forced to see the current US election. On the one hand we have ...

Thursday, October 09, 2008
Yasser Latif Hamdani
Gandhi believed in a world where women were subservient and he viewed with suspicion the growing trend in the western world that had forced women to work instead of being "Queens of the household". This prompted him to call the ...

Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Yasser Latif Hamdani
Almost every country in the world ascribes to the legend of some great figure or the other in the 20th century. It was after all the century of Jinnah, Ataturk, Lenin, Mao, the Kims, Lew Kuan Yew, Nehru-Gandhis, Bhuttos, Churchill, ...