For the last seven years, one has been sailing on the same boat, nowadays, the way it is being driven by, not the crew, but by the currents of the sea, making it frenzied to sail in the coming days ahead. There had been handful sailors, 12 nautical miles across state jurisdiction, were comfortable with […]
The best way of destroying something for a child is by imposing it: the stricter or stronger the imposition the more the level of destruction. When Islamiat was imposed, as a compulsory subject, the reaction that came from students was exactly that. I did not see a single contemporary who took Islamiat/Pakistan Studies seriously, who
The rising consensus of anger in the wake of this massacre has caused some to observe that Fazlullah may be isolated. This may be partially true, especially as Pakistan Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan unfolds. But up in Kunar, he appears quite in control. While Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, has said
Pakistan is a country which has been facing a devastating form of terrorism for two decades, in which thousands of innocent people, hundreds of soldiers and security officials were killed. The menace has not only ruined the life of the nation in the form of bloodsheds but also made Pakistan the worst nation among the
