Guest Column

By Irsa Shafiq & Musharaf Sultana - “Extremism breeds extremism”, so there is a very interconnected and interdependent relationship between these two.

On March 23, 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s political monolith, founding father, and chief architect of the Asian economic miracle, passed on at age 91. Lee leaves behind a country

By Rabia Ahmed - Coming back to Lahore after many years I needed to form connections between my memories (the good old days) and the environment I now found myself in, when the line between

By Nuzhat Nazar - The menace of terrorism in Pakistan has grown manifold since last few years and has cost billions of rupees loss to the economy and took thousands of innocent lives. But it is very tragic fact that a large number of

By Rabia Ahmed - The tragedy in Peshawar brought people together in grief and against terrorism, both within and without the country. But there is something not quite right about the aftermath of the event, because the horror and

By S. Mubashir Noor - Now I confess I may be on the wrong side of 30 to be fully in thrall to the Kaptaan miracle, however between the din of populist rhetoric and the clanging of batons on protesting skulls, I have yet to distinguish

By Shahzad Raza - In mid-80s we used to watch Qari Khushi Muhammad teaching Nazrah on state television. Those were the days when remote control was merely used to increase or decrease the volume, not to surf

By Kamila Hyat - There are many things to be sorted out in our country; questions almost all of us need to think about at some level and find answers to. Are the Taliban good or bad? What about the ‘mujahideen’? How can the Taliban be

By Zeeba T. Hashmi - Being the oldest trade ever known to history, prostitution remains the most condemned and discredited profession looked down upon with lowliness in any society despite the fact many influentials visit the

By Maria Ikram – Gender equality and gender insensitivity