Intellectual deficit in the Muslim world
What happened after the Golden Age?
By Zarrar Mir
We have all heard about the Golden Age of Islam, spanning roughly from the 8th to 13th...
Who is making Pakistan a plastic-stan?
Plastic waste is a problem that urgently needs solving
By Sidra Imam
Today, almost everything in our daily lives is either plastic or contains plastic....
Indian mishandling of the Kashmiri dream
How it was betrayed
By Dr Rajkumar Singh
The Kashmiris’ thrust for equality, justice and just administration, and ultimately a democratic set-up, went back to...
The Kashmir conundrum
Nuclear war offers neither side much advantage
AT PENPOINT
One of the apparently most disturbing aspects of the current Kashmir crisis was that it could...
The excuses of the ‘Beghairat Brigade’
The time to act is upon us
The historian will record that when Indian-Occupied Kashmir was witnessing the worst genocide ever, when Kashmiri women...
Attempts to denigrate Kashmiri’s genuine quest for liberty
Terrorists must be kept out of the freedom struggle
Following the partition of India, the Kashmiris of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) were denied freedom...
Despicable Kashmir debacle
Why this lukewarm world response?
Pakistan took the burning Kashmir issue to the UN Security Council (UNSC). That the UNSC took a decision to...
Our political culture
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first”....
Indian Foreign Policy dynamics
The search for conflict resolution, or its grandiloquent avatar, world peace, has been a central objective of Indian foreign policy ever since India won...
Approaching ICJ should be smart, not emotive
Most approaches founder because of lack of jurisdiction
The Pakistan Government intends to approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) after India’s abolition of...
Kashmir looking up to an insensitive world
The world’s indifference is shocking
By: Muhammad Ali Ehsan
The Arab Spring that shook the Middle East was sparked by an incident in Tunisia. We all remember...
Disadvantage of incumbency
One year of the PTI
Sitting governments all over the world suffer from what is called disadvantage of incumbency. Their opponents, commentators, analysts and...
On gender equality
A politically incorrect column
Are women equal to men? This is an old question, and there have been all sorts of responses to it....
Death of a Herald
Are we witnessing the end of an era where journalism meant holding power to account?
Another Herald perished. And with it another voice of...
Parting of the ways
Jinnah and the divisive politics of the Congress
In his book, Jinnah – Creator of Pakistan, Hector Bolitho, argues that ‘if Muhammad Ali Jinnah...
Is Kashmir really a bilateral issue?
Since the 1948 resolutions, the issue was seen as international
By: Abdul Hadi Piracha
On August h, India revoked Articles 370 and 35-A of its...
A dangerous precedent
Hasina Wajed’s Bangladesh is a blueprint for authoritative democracy
By: Ammad Malik
Bangladesh’s economy is projected to grow by 7.4% in 2019, according to the...
