Op-ed: Banning TikTok will do more harm than good

In a move that came as a shock to many – but perhaps also as a relief to others– the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA)...

Op-ed: Weakening the military will weaken Pakistan to its core

Recently, there is an uptick in the national and international campaign against Pakistan’s military, regarding the politicization of the military by different political forces,...

Op-ed: Saudi, UAE have replaced religion with nationalism for legitimizing government

Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin...

Violence against women: Who is responsible?

In a country where women constitute an estimated 50% of the population, and the society is rocked by ever increasing incidents of violence against...

‘A military is only for war’: In response to Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy

Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, former Professor of Physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, is a distinguished Pakistani academic and a prominent public intellectual. He has...

The RSS’s surreptitious censorship of syllabus: An effort to distort history

Under the RSS’s influence, syllabi in several states have been surreptitiously altered to accommodate pro-Hindutva material. India’s Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr....

Demographic change: The constant Kashmiri fear

August: a month of powerlessness and repression, has indeed been unwieldy for the people of Kashmir valley since 1947. A year ago, on 5...

Islam in the West: Freedom to express or oppress?

Atheism has been on the rise during the recent years, mostly in the West, where a big chunk of the people, especially youngsters, prefer...

Nuclear power: clean, cheap, and sustainable source of energy for Pakistan

The great power of the atom is not limited to warfare. The nuclear technology can supply a clean, cheap, and sustainable source of energy...

Op-ed: A tale of two bears

In Martin Waddell’s children’s storybook titled "Two Brown Bears", Joe Bear and Harriet Bear have fun adventures, they convert bicycles into planes and go...

Motivational speakers, the new form of “Banarasi Thugs”

“You can have anything you want in life” and “You were born to win” are the grand statements made by motivational speakers. Imagine the...

The Great Transformation: How is RSS transforming India into a fascist regime?

Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister, like so many other Bharatiya Janata Party stalwarts, makes no bones about having been a member of the...
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