OPINION

Anxious days amid COVID-19 lockdown

By Rafia Zakaria The mood of the moment is anxious amid COVID-19 lockdown. As the world continues to stay in a state of lockdown, routines are disrupted, businesses shuttered and people thrown together for extended periods of time, often in small spaces. The news is all terrible, even from places which are not usually the […]

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The unexplored love

By Sikandar Shah The unexplored love. Great saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia used to say: \”The lad of a washerman (Dhobi) was lucky enough, we couldn\’t prove ourselves like him.\” After saying this he used to be unconscious. His disciples would ask him what the matter of the washerman\’s lad was? He would say there were

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جناح, مولانا آزاد اورچترال

ڈاکٹرعنایت اللہ فیضی یہ بات دلچسپ اور عجیب ہے کہ1943میں چترال کے علماء دہلی میں قائداعظم محمد علی جناح، جواہر لال نہرو، نوابزادہ لیاقت علی خان اور مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد سے ملاقات کرکے تقسیم ہند اور انگریزوں کی غلامی سے آزادی پر تبادلہ خیال کیا کرتے تھے۔ دارلعلوم دیوبند، مدرسہ امینیہ دہلی اور ہندوکش کے

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Darwin

Corona – our debt to Darwin

By Pervez Hoodbhoy Charles Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or, if they go ahead, first soften it with a ton of scorn. A commonly used biology school textbook rubbishes the theory, claiming that evolution of species

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Positive side of COVID-19

By Aamer Zeb Sultan In the present time, everyone is immersed in discussion about COVID-19. It is believed that the disease is highly contagious but at the same time its mortality rate is very low. Regardless of the mortality rate, the fear factor among the people is alarming and it has conquered almost all the

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