VOL 7 NO 4

By Shamshad Ahmad[1] ABSTARCT: During my last visit to the US, I was asked to comment on an essay entitled ‘The story of Indian democracy’ by Sumit Ganguly, a Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilization at Indiana University.  This essay in fact was an edited version of his talk at the History Institute […]

By Javid Husain[1] The successful evolution of the European Union into a dynamic association of European states cooperating for common economic, political and security goals from the modest start of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952 and the phenomenal economic prosperity that Europe has achieved since then has encouraged the growth of regional

By KS Dhillon Don Quixote or The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, to give it its full title, a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, who reads too many chivalric novels, and sets out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza,

By Yasser Latif Hamdani[1] The Constitution (18th Amendment) Act, 2010 is the boldest attempt yet at restoring representative parliamentary democracy in Pakistan since General Zia ul Haq’s military regime altered the constitution fundamentally to tilt the balance of power in the favour of the President of the republic. The Zia regime also tampered with the

By  Toheed Ahmad[1] History is a vision of God’s creation on the move – Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour – Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder – The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world

By A. G. NORANI[1] The roots of what passes for fundamentalism today lie deep in Muslim consciousness. Islam is a religion of peace and respect for human rights; above all, it is compassionate. But by a cruel twist of misfortune Muslim practices, especially in the spheres of the State and intellectual freedom, disconnected with Islam.

Comment The film. The dichotomy prevalent within Pakistani society between liberals and extremists is more than apparent.  Two recent incidents have highlighted this bifurcation: the release of the film, “Innocence of Muslims” on the internet and the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai. NakoulaBasseleyNakoula, a naturalized US citizen of Egyptian origin, released the 14 minute trailer