The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Like khalafah, umma, jihad and shahadat, takfir has attained a wide currency in modern day Muslim discourse. For analysts, takfir has a peculiar...
Never was the necessity for political consensus more desperately felt than in recent days. The attack on a strategic site like Karachi airport was...
Books dealing with how the South Asian Muslims responded to their ‘decline’ after the War of Independence give a lot of importance to...
Professor Waseem’s brief sojourn to the University of Cambridge, UK, and his talk to graduate students at the Centre of South Asian Studies...
Narendra Damodardas Modi, 63, will be sworn in on May 26, 2014, as the 12th prime minister of the ‘world’s biggest...
Pakistan, like any other postcolonial state, continued to stick to the structures laid down by the British even after independence. Thus, the birth...
Imparting education to its citizens is an enterprise which has received scant attention by those managing the Pakistani state. The consequence of...
Despite its importance as a large province, Punjab and its history remain neglected areas. Therefore an attempt is being made here to scrutinise its...
The ‘identity’ as a social construct defies any plausible definition -- not because it is a complex cognitive category but because it is...
Islam, as a system of governance, and its potential capacity to deal with the substantive issues which emanate from the modern political discourse,...
The articles by Yassir Pirzada and Ayaz Amir rattled deeply entrenched stereotypes about Pakistan’s founding fathers, vociferously articulated...
The swiftest and the most efficacious way of dealing with ‘difference’ is to exterminate the very source of it. This is what happened in...
Medieval history has somehow fallen out of the equation in the overall educational discourse of Pakistan. A steep decline is evident in the quest...
My sojourn to Houston, Texas entailed some intellectually charged interactions, with a few highly perceptive individuals. Ussama Makdisi, Professor...
Among Pakistani academia, if anybody epitomises multidisciplinarity, he is Dr Akbar Zaidi. Known for his prowess as an expert in political economy,...
The drone strikes on Waziristan have driven a wedge through an already polarised Pakistani public opinion, highlighting the ambiguity reflected in...
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi’s attribution of the slaughter of people to the Pakhtun tribal ethos has created a stir in the media. He has also...
This February marks the sixty-third anniversary of Chaudhry Rahmat Ali the man who coined the name of our country, Pakistan, yet who is only...
Unfolding of the post-9/11 events has changed the discourse on Pakistan -- from its role in international affairs to actors like Taliban and...
Numerous thinkers of history -- from Edward Gibbon to Arnold Toynbee -- have engaged with the concept of rise, decline and fall of...
