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Noman Sattar

  • December 25, 2023

    Quaid’s democratic vision

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

  • March 23, 2023

    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...

  • January 25, 2023

    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....

  • December 25, 2022

    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....

  • December 25, 2021

    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...

  • August 14, 2021

    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...

  • December 25, 2020

    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...

  • August 14, 2018

    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;...

  • August 07, 2017

    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...

  • June 07, 2017

    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....

  • April 27, 2017

    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...

  • February 21, 2017

    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...

  • January 20, 2017

    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....

  • November 02, 2016

    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...

  • October 01, 2016

    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...

  • August 27, 2016

    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...

  • July 01, 2016

    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...

  • June 17, 2016

    A new standoff

    The history of Pak-US relations brought together a superpower and a small state, with a third country always in the equation. The relationship has...

  • March 05, 2016

    An inconvenient truth

    In today’s world, our lives revolve around the media, in terms of news as well as entertainment, or ‘infotainment’. Of course, the...