How do you dissolve that lump in your throat when you begin to write the obituary of I A Rehman? Possibly by first remembering what a wit he was....
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Tuesday elected senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentarian Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new prime...
Side-effect I am a reader of Muhammad Amir Rana’s writings. Some of his research on understanding conflict and terrorism in the Muslim world,...
Side-effect I chanced upon a meme the other day. It has a smiling picture of our leading human rights defender, lawyer and social critic, Asma...
Part - II Side-effect In any state and society, tolerance for dissent is the first step towards making the state and society internally strong,...
Part - I Side-effect Every state has some form of ideological foundations – whether the state is considered an ideological state like...
Part - III Side-effect So what does this deepening crisis of scholarship mean for us as a people – South Asian Muslims – in our daily...
Part - I Side-effect One’s view is primarily that of a creative writer. But since one’s interests straddle history, politics, culture...
Side-effect Like many of you must have experienced with your friends and colleagues, some of my friends, old classmates, acquaintances and...
Side-effect You are a Pakistani. You are reading this newspaper. Either it was delivered to your doorstep when the day began or put on your desk at...
Side-effect You lock them up inside the factory where they work and then burn them down alive. They are in hundreds – women, men and young...
Side-effect It has sunk in by now that Donald John Trump, the Republican nominee, has convincingly won the presidential election against Hillary...
Side-effect Even if we are fine otherwise in social situations, laidback and jovial, warm and friendly, inclusive and hospitable as people, when it...
Side-effect The people of Pakistan – also whenever they become the electorate to choose a government – either have a serious crisis of...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. I acknowledge that what I have wanted to say today, after being away for a couple...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. In the Europe of the 1990s, when walls, countries, armies, ideologies and peoples...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Here are two questions that can be seen as one – inter-related but can be...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Before we come to the question of who is a Mohajir, let me state at the outset...
Part - III Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. We are where we are. Forces of history, international order,...
Part - II Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. While Muslim societies were being radicalised with the encouragement of...
Part - I Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. There may be nothing new for some informed and insightful readers today....
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. On Dawn News in English, one of the few English television news channels we used...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. ‘On Contradiction’ is one of those theoretical works by Mao Zedong,...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Abdul Sattar Edhi believed in organ donation and had asked his family to donate...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. The tribute was befitting, from people and from the state. Edhi lived a life of...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. When the news of our leading qawwal and Sufi musician Amjad Sabri’s...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. The more progress humanity makes in terms of realising fundamental rights and...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. One has the right to form an opinion, reach a decision, profess an idea and act...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. The Heaven has not left a single heart intact/It has stained each and every one by...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. I read with interest the recent news reports of a dialogue being held in Islamabad...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Nazir Ahmed Dehlavi, famously known as Dipty Nazir Ahmed , was a 19th century...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author basedin Islamabad. It is but natural to feel happy when you see a woman or a man who shares your...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Why would an ordinary citizen of Pakistan stand up and start offering advice to...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. How do we view power? How do we want our political representatives to look? How do...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Amidst all intellectual bankruptcy, ethical challenges, social fragmentation and...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. There are books and then there are books. One such work that substantially...
Part - III Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. What will then address the issues of our intellectual despondency and...
Part - II Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Today, besides Pakistan all South Asian Muslims societies including...
Part - I Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. At the turn of the twentieth century, Indians had started gaining a new...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Iftikhar Arif, one of our leading poets, says in one of his relatively recent...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. I wouldn’t want to be seen as a scoundrel taking last refuge in patriotism,...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. My sister-in-law was born to a Pakistani soldier – someone truly...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. I don’t remember – thinking back to my childhood – most people...
Side-effect As a student and practitioner of poetry, the find for me in the Karachi Literary Festival 2016 was the poetry of Rafiq Kathwari, the...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. This is in continuation of the last point I made in the previous column. Boys will...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. In Kabul, the temperature was not that low but the wind chill factor made it feel...
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. “I went to India, but after my exile I came back. My family’s lands and riches...
