Sometimes I just wonder whether the state we will in is even a state anymore. If by the state we mean the government, then what is the government even doing? Very frankly, I feel no security seeing the police around. Far from that, I often avoid encountering or approaching them for help. Experience tells us [...]

The phrase-“Give unto God what was God’s and to Caesar what were Caesar’s”- is such a charming phrase, full of all that is naïve, and based on wishful thinking. Let me elaborate on secular grounds, using reason alone against the dogmatic principles associated with revelation, that there exists a very obvious contradiction in the statement, [...]

Some men are great, some are remembered and some go on to live forever in the minds of millions. Alexander was great but what did he do but conquer lands? Einstein was a genius but what did he do but lead humanity to its worst nightmare, i.e. the nuclear bomb?  Many philosophers are believed to [...]

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was once attending a ceremony in his honour in Delhi, while residing at the home of the Pakistani high commissioner.  Faiz tells us that the son of the commissioner came to him for an autograph. In return, Faiz inscribed his signature along with one of his verses. The boy looked at it [...]

Today’s self-proclaimed “liberals” have made the case that Pakistan’s establishment has created a history that blends Islam and Nationalism to serve its interests. They go on to claim that the much revered Muhammad Ali Jinnah, AKA Quaid e Azam, was a liberal Muslim nationalist who had nothing more than a secular democratic state in mind [...]

Our ‘pseudoliberals’ can just blame everything wrong in the universe with religion. Just mix anything with religion; when you mix it with politics, you go wrong; when you do it with social welfare, you go wrong.; when you do it with trade, you go wrong; when you do it with education, you go wrong. You [...]

Call him an assailant, an attacker, a gunman, a guy with a bad temperament; anything but a terrorist. After all, does he look like a terrorist? No, not at all! He has blond hair and white skin. He’s not Muzzlim. Well he did kill above ninety people, and yes he should not have done that; [...]

When I was eight years old, my family returned to Pakistan from the United States and a lot of  things in the world suddenly changed for me. I remember (and my relatives won’t ever let me forget) that one of my very first statements was, “Why is everything broken?”. I’m pretty sure, I meant to [...]

What have we come to? Are we not a mess? It is as though our humanity has been stripped away from us. Violence, violence, and more violence, plus so much of indifference! We have lost our ability to feel; to feel the sacredness of the value of life. Human suffering is gradually meaning to us [...]

We, the Pakistanis! Do we look like chicken? No really, is that how we look like? I believe we do look like chicken to you. The reality is that you Americans have always seen the world the same way you view chickens. You don’t have to see the slaughter and suffering of the chicken, do [...]