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Power Above Law
What is unfolding in Pakistan over Imran Khan’s health is no longer merely about one prisoner, politician or political party. It is a test of whether Pakistan is governed by law or by the unchecked will of those in power. Two days ago, the Supreme Court ordered that Imran Khan be shifted to Shifa International…
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From Mecca to Karbala
A Journey without equal Imam Hussain’s one way journey from Medina to Karbala fourteen hundred years ago wasn’t an ordinary journey. It was a journey of sublimity, enlightenment and deliverance for humanity. Imam Hussain…
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Media and Islamophobia
After the recent attacks in Paris, I deem it’s extremely bizarre to note the dramatic increase in the backlash on Muslim communities especially those living in western societies. Whenever I attempt to read online…
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Legacy of a general
Not what the Quaid intended What can be the legacy of a general? Novelty in marshalling troops in battlegrounds, breaking ground in new formations, genius in surprise tactics to catch the enemy off-guard, reaching…
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Karbala as Counter Terrorism Strategy
Islam is a philosophy of life. It gives reasons and a set purpose for living. Furthermore, it defines the best ways to secure progress and happiness. This is done by elevating the spiritual side…
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Karbala as Counter Terrorism Strategy
Islam is a philosophy of life. It gives reasons and a set purpose for living. Furthermore, it defines the best ways to secure progress and happiness. This is done by elevating the spiritual side…
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Pakistan Grapples with Ongoing Battle of Ideas
Political, social, ethnic, economic and religious scenarios of Pakistan are caught in the whirlwind of conflicting arguments. So much so that even the identity of the maker of Pakistan reverently called Quaid-i-Azam, the greatest…
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US Economic Onslaught on Iran
The United States is cruising along a course to impose stricter sanctions on Iran but presently will be satisfied with the fourth set of sanctions that are not so biting. According to Paul Richter…
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Impossible Regime Change in Iran
Down the lane of history Western leaders have shown paucity, at times, rather absence of any moral standards while dealing with Islam or Islamic regimes. They usually claimed to uphold the standard of justice…
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MNS Volte Face
This is exactly how politicians in Pakistan are supposed to muddle up. They cruise along sprouting their ill-fated animosities expecting the nation to suffer their rancour, jealousy and distrust of each other with priestly…
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Ill-equipped to Handle Crisis
We have become a country of crisis. We have crisis at all levels of our political, social and economic strata. The unfortunate aspect of the problem is not that we have ever increasing and…
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Latest from Islam
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What Have We Made of Ourselves?
Whatever may have caused it; whatever may have provided the inspiration; whatever may have given the impetus to the present killing spree in the lands of Islam, one thing is certain: the onus of…
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Relevance of Imam Ali (AS)
Quite in the early days of Islam Imam Ali could see that prayers and fasting of a foolish and stolid person did not serve any purpose in Islam if they did not match its…
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Media and Islamophobia
After the recent attacks in Paris, I deem it’s extremely bizarre to note the dramatic increase in the backlash on Muslim communities especially those living in western societies. Whenever I attempt to read online…
Latest from Pakistan
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Power Above Law
What is unfolding in Pakistan over Imran Khan’s health is no longer merely about one prisoner, politician or political party. It is a test of whether Pakistan is governed by law or by the unchecked will of those in power. Two days ago, the Supreme Court ordered that Imran Khan be shifted to Shifa International…
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A failed leader
What can we say of a politician who has the backing of 11 out of 12 political parties in the parliament? Must be a man basking in wisdom and political acumen. It, unfortunately, is…
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Engaging the Terror
Agents of devil tearing the country asunder are sparing no lives including old men, women, children and infants, whereas pacifists among us, now incidentally at the helms of affairs, are talking about engaging them…
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Diabolical Indo-Israeli Nexus
Through its words, calm behavior and vigorous action in the wake ofMumbai tragedy of 26th November 2008 at the hands of terrorists, Pakistan has made its intentions known that it means business and that…
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Living with Nuclear Iran
Anti-Iran passion seems to have befogged the Western intelligentsia to such an extent that far fetched and illusionary analogies are drawnbetween the collapse of the soviet empire and the opposition movement in Iran. Over…
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Massacre in Egypt
The Egyptian massacre of August 14, 2013, has only proved and further re-emphasised the fact that extremists, whether in the ranks of Islamists or secularists, have no regard for human life. It is the…
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