VOL 8 NO 2

By Toheed Ahmad[1] He was the first Hindustani to write and publish a book in the English language. Published in Ireland in 1794, the book was called The Travels of Dean Mahomet,A Native of Patna in Bengal Through Several Parts of India While in the Service of the Honourable East India Company, Written by Himself in […]

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi[1] Pakistan was born in a hurry. Even the 1940 Lahore Resolution of the All India Muslim League did not envisage one Muslim state carved out of the departing British Empire, and till the summer of 1946, its birth was not certain. The British Cabinet Mission plan, which continued to be debated

By Muhammad Azam Khan[1] Abstract All sorts of information criss-cross the space today. No country or society can stay economically viable, let alone competitive if the flow of information therein remains hostage to state disruptions and restrictions as in Pakistan today.  Security threats, the financial and ideological allure of Islamist radicalism and bad governance must

By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal TI (M)[1] Abstract For Americans, the Afghanistan war is entering its final phase. President Obama is ensuring that this war endson his watch; he is also aware that none of the stated objectives of this war have visibly been achieved. Nevertheless, he would go down in the history as

By A. G. NOORANI[1] Abstract The execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru, in Tihar Jail in New Delhi on 9 February 2013, after a sham trial in which he was undefended, fits the description of a political trial aimed to eliminate one whom the powers that be were resolved to eliminate with utter lack of decency.

By Yasser Latif Hamdani[1] Abstract There is much confusion about the term “secularism” in Pakistan. There is to start with, of course, the burden of Pakistan’s founding myth i.e. Pakistan was created in the name of Islam, which gives our priestly class a veto on any progress towards secular equality in Pakistan. This is stemmed in

Comment A few days after the Kinari Road carnage of Shias in Quetta on February 16, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appointed his country’s first Religious Freedom Ambassador. The honour went to a man from the Ahmadiyya community in Maple, Ontario. On this occasion, Harper spoke with passion about the pitiable plight of minorities in