Col (r) Ikram Ullah Khan In a surprising yet expected strategic move, President Donald Trump has decided to make a reentry into Afghanistan, this time not using force but through a discreet diplomacy and negotiations. This resurgence of US interest in Afghanistan is quite understandable due to a host of reasons, the strategic significance of
Dr Shakira Nandini “The spell of gold-worship” — or corruption — is not merely a sequence of letters, but a ruthless truth. It doesn’t confine itself to back alleys, corridors of power, or the walls of institutions. It is a cancer that germinates within, silences the conscience, and extinguishes the flame of awareness. Corruption, though
Zahiruddin CHITRAL: A wild vegetable locally known as ‘Manghoor’ and found abundantly on forested hillsides across Lower Chitral has become a significant source of income for hundreds of households as the unemployed youth collect and sell it in the market. The season of the vegetable lasts for two months during which the youth earn substantial
Dr Shakira Nandini Human society has always been enriched by a diversity of thoughts, ideas, and perspectives. Differences of opinion are natural, but when these differences transform into hatred, prejudice, and hostility, they push society toward decline. Today, one of the most dangerous diseases afflicting our society is intellectual bias and sectarian division – separating
Muntazir Ali This Tuesday, April 15, I taught a seminar on \”The Quran, Environment, and Climate Change\” as part of my Approaches to the Quran course. My students – more than half of them from non-Muslim backgrounds and studying the Quran for the first time – grappled with questions most of us assume belong to
