Op-ed: TTP now making last-ditch efforts to stay relevant

There has been a spike in the number of attacks on security forces operating in the now merged areas of Waziristan — former tribal...

A lesson for Macron: Freedom of expression is not absolute

Once again, the Muslim world has been deeply saddened and enraged by the heart-wrenching comments of French president Emmanuel Macron about Islam and its...

Op-ed: Macron’s myopic views about Islam need to change

Once again, France finds itself in the center of turmoil ignited by the highly bigoted speech of the French President Emanuel Macron in which...

The shared civilizational aspirations of Indonesia, US and Islam

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to boost efforts by the world’s largest Muslim movement to re-contextualize Islam during a forthcoming visit...

Trump’s gamble on Iran will prove advantageous for China

India has found itself on the losing end of the Trump administration’s gamble in Asia and its “maximum pressure” policy toward Iran. In some...

How the US ‘establishment’ influences Trump’s policies

Following their first-ever rendezvous in Singapore in June 2018 and a “bromance” lasting over a period of several months, a much-anticipated two-day summit meeting...

Kashmir black day: A day to protest Muslim genocide in IOK

  Kashmir black day is observed every year on 27th October in Pakistan and Kashmir in commemoration of the matchless sacrifices made by freedom fighters...

What happened in the final presidential debate 2020?

  The final presidential debate of the 2020 election was a whole lot to take in. It was a start of the final stretch of...

Is this Quaid’s Pakistan?

The obnoxious incident of disrespect for the Quaid-e Azam’s Mazar by Maryam’s husband Capt. Safdar, while she looked on smiling without any expression, has...

Op-ed: Muslim voters in US should remember who dropped bombs in Islamic countries

During the presidential debate alongside Donald Trump in September, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden uttered the invocative Islamic expression “Inshallah,” meaning “God willing,” to...

Are anti-establishment movements becoming anti-institutional?

Around the world, being anti-establishment is deemed as a status symbol. It has its own political as well as social advantages. Though, some people...

The history of secular education in the subcontinent

When the British came (and they took almost 150 years before they had control over the entire subcontinent) the system of education was managed...