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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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Uneven Road to Peace in the Middle East
Not only that the road to peace in the Middle East is uneven, it is leading nowhere. Since the beginning of the so-called peace process called road-map, not an iota of progress has been…
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Asia’s SAARC Syndrome
Housing sixty per cent of world’s poor, beset with disputes engaging political, ethnic, religious and cultural sensitivities of all shades of people, with leaders having abiding disregard to learn lessons from the past, complete…
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The US Implausible Syrian Agenda
The US and its allies in the West expected that the death of former Lebanese PM Rafik Harari, which according to certain elites in the West initiated a ‘cedar revolution’ in Lebanon, referring to…
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Abiding Role of IAEA
Heavy is the head that wears the crown. After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize of 2005 the UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei as well as the IAEA have greater responsibility in up-keeping the…
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Storm in a Teacup
Earlier this month Dr Condoleezza Rice voiced concern over Iran’s nuclear programme wherever she went. The job must have been really taxing since she was asking for something that has not happened and is…
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IAEA & New Interpretation of NPT
In the haze of propaganda that is unsparing, unprincipled, unforgiv-ing and deceitful, shapes get twisted, visions get distorted, even the wisest gets swayed and the first casualty of propaganda in such situations is the…
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Latest from Islam
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Preaching only through love and compassion
The Quran annunciates that preaching can only be done through love and compassion and that on the question of one’s belief people can only be talked to kindly, nicely and in the best of…
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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…
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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Fund Raising Efforts in Libya Gain Momentum
Mr. Jamil Ahmed Khan, Ambassador of Pakistan in Libya, speaking at a fund raising dinner in Tripoli, Libya at his residence popularly called Pakistan House on August 23, 2010 said that within a short…
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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…
Latest from International Affairs
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Mubarak’s Destabilising Role
Israel’s Gaza carnage started just a day after Tzipi Livni, Israeli foreign minister, returned from Egypt after meeting, pro-western secular president, Mr. Hosni Mubarak. Israeli Foreign minister’s this visit has proved very costly to…
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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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