The author is a senior columnist and Secretary General Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
If the cutting short of a promising life, such as Mashal Khan’s, has any lesson to be remembered in 2018 and beyond, it is the urgency of...
As the clouds of authoritarianism are again gathering on Pakistan’s horizon, people will need to follow Benazir Bhutto’s spirit to save democracy
These are testing times. But stout-hearted, truthful and disciplined news providers will survive because the courage of the defenceless has no limits
The defence of everything done by dictators, as an immutable injunction of faith, will not bring credit to true Islamic scholars. Nor will it...
The greatest block on the way to normal, friendly and cooperative relations between India and Pakistan is the rise to ascendancy of religious...
Nawaz Sharif’s case is that political disputes should be decided at political forums and through political means only. This is something an...
The main reason for the state’s failure to effectively tackle the ED problem is that it has tried only to trace the disappeared and shirked the...
What happens over the next few months and how fair the next general election is going to be will determine not only the relevance of the electoral...
If there is any lesson for politicians from the recent happenings it is this: democracy demands more hard work and greater confidence in the wisdom...
Democracy will have better chances of flourishing in Pakistan if the wiser elites stopped sneering at people’s choice of their representatives or...
There is reason to believe that as a result of the present judgment many, if not all, politicians in power will try to keep their affairs and...
Has a critical mass of people awakened to the need for a fresh discussion on the blasphemy law and procedure? Is it possible to end the regime of...
Swinging and dynamic, a capital shaped by the cultural eccentricities of immigrants
What has been the Movement’s impact on the practical meaning of the judiciary’s independence, its relationship with the lawyers and the...
The theories of ideological moorings Pakistan’s opportunistic rulers have employed for years have landed us in a blind alley. The state must...
For the new generation, Pakistan was a land of great promise
Failure to tear off the terrorists’ religious cloak prevents the administration from cleaning up the nurseries of terrorism
A tolerant society achieves the highest levels of patriotic solidarity, an intolerant people destroy themselves -- this is the verdict of history
Social media is not an unmixed blessing
In the current state of governance, why would a government want the kind of police the people need?
