How do you dissolve that lump in your throat when you begin to write the obituary of I A Rehman? Possibly by first remembering what a wit he was....
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Tuesday elected senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentarian Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new prime...
Side-effect I am a reader of Muhammad Amir Rana’s writings. Some of his research on understanding conflict and terrorism in the Muslim world,...
Side-effect I chanced upon a meme the other day. It has a smiling picture of our leading human rights defender, lawyer and social critic, Asma...
Part - II Side-effect In any state and society, tolerance for dissent is the first step towards making the state and society internally strong,...
Part - I Side-effect Every state has some form of ideological foundations – whether the state is considered an ideological state like...
Part - III Side-effect So what does this deepening crisis of scholarship mean for us as a people – South Asian Muslims – in our daily...
Part - I Side-effect One’s view is primarily that of a creative writer. But since one’s interests straddle history, politics, culture...
Side-effect Like many of you must have experienced with your friends and colleagues, some of my friends, old classmates, acquaintances and...
Side-effect You are a Pakistani. You are reading this newspaper. Either it was delivered to your doorstep when the day began or put on your desk at...
Side-effect You lock them up inside the factory where they work and then burn them down alive. They are in hundreds – women, men and young...
Side-effect It has sunk in by now that Donald John Trump, the Republican nominee, has convincingly won the presidential election against Hillary...
Side-effect Even if we are fine otherwise in social situations, laidback and jovial, warm and friendly, inclusive and hospitable as people, when it...
Side-effect The people of Pakistan – also whenever they become the electorate to choose a government – either have a serious crisis of...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. I acknowledge that what I have wanted to say today, after being away for a couple...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. In the Europe of the 1990s, when walls, countries, armies, ideologies and peoples...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Here are two questions that can be seen as one – inter-related but can be...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Before we come to the question of who is a Mohajir, let me state at the outset...
