Noman Sattar

  • Communalism, nationalism, and the road to independence

    Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah speaking at the Constitutional Assembly. — The News/FileIndependence Day-August 14-is not merely a celebration of...

  • Communalism, nationalism, and the road to independence

    Communalism, nationalism, and the road to independence

    Independence Day-August 14-is not merely a celebration of freedom for the Muslims of India; it marks liberation from British colonial rule and...

  • Pakistan Resolution: A civilisational perspective

    Pakistan Resolution: A civilisational perspective

    This historic phenomenon can be better understood in its politico-historical context

  • Quaid’s democratic vision

    Quaid’s democratic vision

    While Quaid led movement for independent homeland for Muslims, it was also struggle against Hindu hegemony, British colonial mindset

  • Resolution in retrospect

    The independence of Pakistan is marked by many milestones, the 23rd March being a prominent one. It was this day that actually gave the Muslims of...

  • The legacy lives on

    Daily Jang emerged as an Urdu weekly in pre-Partition India, getting its name from the war environment, in what was a charged political climate....

  • The unmatched charisma of the Quaid

    Political movements are best understood by studying the leaders who play a central role in unifying a multitude of masses for a single cause....

  • The Quaid in his letters

    Letter writing has been as common in the past as the use of computers today. Letters of public figures and literati are still seen as major literary...

  • Partition issues in retrospect

    This Independence Day sees the region in greater turmoil, as the situation in the west deteriorates toward civil war, and Kashmir-related friction...

  • Quaid on national defence

    Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has generally been seen as a national leader of high stature, a sharp politician, a constitutionalist, and a legal...

  • A mandate for ‘change’ and Quaid’s ideology of a truly democratic Pakistan

    Independence Day is a time for introspection, and to deliberate on the country’s past, present and future. This Independence Day has more to it;...

  • Our nascent democracy

    The Supreme Court’s decision on the Panama Papers brought in its wake the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and much more. The country not only...

  • A new wave of terror

    The terrorist wave of the 21st century, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has, so to say, ‘institutionalised’ the phenomenon of terrorism....

  • Ethics and politics

    Finally, the Court spoke and gave its decision on the much publicised Panama leaks case. Needless to say, the decision was eagerly awaited by the...

  • Unlearning lessons

    Pakistan’s war on terror has been traumatic and challenging. That Pakistan was pressurised to fight this war is also passé. For some...

  • A new style of presidency

    The day that no one except one person believed was possible has finally come – Donald J Trump will take over as the new American president....

  • Race to the White House

    American presidential elections are perhaps the only ones that are followed all over the world, as the outcome affects the world as well. But this...

  • The case against war

    To say that India-Pak relations have historically been adversarial is now a cliché. Conflict, standoff, and confrontation are buzzwords in...

  • MQM: the breach within

    The MQM has dominated Sindh’s urban politics for quite some time. It built a reputation on many counts – its ethnic politics, its...

  • On the western front

    The current state of Pakistan’s foreign relations could at best be termed dismal, a case in point being the state of its relations with its...