Published in The Friday Times on January 11th 2013 Pakistan has what you call an abusive relationship with its citizens. It isn’t a good provider: no electricity, no gas, no water. It is also not good at ensuring security, an essential in a stable relationship. Hundreds...
Published on Chowk.com on January 14th 2011 In Pakistan the populous is still operating on a pre-partition colonial mindset. Psychologically Pakistanis are in a state of oppression even today. They are thankless for having achieved a nation state where the majority can freely practice their way...
Published in The Daily Times on January 6th 2012 The founding father’s secular ideals have been sacrificed for the penumbra imagined and read into his ambiguous and general appeals to Islam. Imran Khan has already said enough that is open to misinterpretation After the Karachi jalsa (rally),...
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...