Published in the Daily Times on November 24th 2010 An estimated 17 percent of all families in Pakistan are associated with polygamy in their primary relationships. This means that as many as one-fifth of our population lives in an arrangement of compromise, most likely to take...
Published in The Daily Times on August 15th 2011 The reliance on a saviour mentality where Pakistan will be rescued by God will be the cause of an ultimate out-of-control Pakistan. The opposite was the philosophy given to us by Mohammed Ali Jinnah This year’s Pakistan Independence...
Published in The Daily Times on January 31st 2012 Given the unparalleled investment of national energy and resources in this case, it is only fair to ask why other daughters of Pakistan who languish in Pakistani jails while being routinely tortured and raped are not worthy...
Published on Pakistaniat.com on January 12th 2011 The Faiz Foundation in collaboration with Bank Alfalah has just produced and will soon release a new CD of Tina SaniFaiz Ahmed Faiz singing . Along with Iqbal Bano and Nayyara Noor, Tina Sani is one of the singers...
Published on pakistaniat.com on November 30th 2010 The Mard-e-Momin as a form of national identity is overrated. So is the concept of the collective morality and the religious honor that gets everyone keyed up, ready to take up arms against an aggressor. The biggest aggressor, after...
Published on Chowk.com on March 2nd 2011 How you meet a book is important. I was in a leading Karachi bookstore browsing the new books session when an attendant stacked new plastic clad books of Moni Mohsin’s Tender Hooks. I was reading Faiz Ahmed Faiz at the...
Published on Chowk.com on Dec 12th 2011 You don’t know till you are half way through the book that the protagonist in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, is beautiful – and you don’t figure out till the end how symbolic her beauty is. The novel...
Published in Dawn Newspaper and Chowk.com on August 7th 2009 Prof. Ayaz Ahmad Khan recounts the horrors of his son’s death Capt. Jonaid Khan: Special Services Group in the Pakistan army was born in Quetta in 1983, with his primary education in Ankara, where his father...
Published on August 5th 2010 Pakistan is looked at as a country on edge, a country where a fanatic is a breath away from detonating a nuclear device. The potential for that is not the debate here. What really indicates the direction the country is taking...
Published on Chowk.com on May 31st 2010 Militants gunned down and attacked two Ahmedi mosques in Lahore and Pakistan has tied its panties in knots trying to figure out if the places of worship should be called mosques and if the terrorists were funded by the...