BANNED for life — Pervez Musharraf’s abortive return to politics has been brought to a screeching halt by the Peshawar High Court order of April 30, 2013. Parsing the logic of the order is a delicate business: Musharraf has clearly committed grave crimes against the Constitution and the superior judiciary was a direct target of […]
Jan-e-Alam Khaki SECTS and sectarianism have been an enigma for almost all world religions, and the cause of much strife. Almost all religions comprise sects and sub-sects, which appear to be a historical phenomenon, quite common across history. More often than not, sects and sectarianism have posed a great challenge to world faiths, leading often
Munir Hussyn Fatemi Everyone raises his hands to offer Dua while passing by the shrine of a saint in Jinalikoch area near Booni in upper Chitral. But very few people perhaps know about the saint buried there. ChitralToday in its series of articles on the personalities who played a key role in the spread of
God has given man’s destiny in his own hands and he is the one to sketch it the way he pleases. The story of Mr. Sardar Karim is enough to inspire the youth of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral that the backwardness of our areas does not actually restrain us from success; it is our own lack
Did anyone have any idea that the election scrutiny process, punctuated hilariously with the comedy show emanating from Articles 62 and 63 of the constitution (put there by that master of our sorrows, Gen Ziaul Haq), would lead to such an intense debate about the meaning of Pakistan? But such a debate has erupted and
