BY AHMAD ALI KHALID ON AUGUST 23RD, 2011
By Khalid Aziz | From the Newspaper
By Nilofar Ahmed | From the Newspaper
By S. Akbar Zaidi | From the Newspaper
IN a rather long-winded article recently published in an Indian journal by one of Pakistan`s best-known liberal public intellectuals, the writer has analysed and detailed the divisions within Pakistan`s Army. Continue reading
By Awaam
At another place we have argued that establishing Allah’s discourse in Islam is the first and the most fundamental requirement for Islamic renaissance. This was the dominant and main discourse, in fact perhaps the only discourse that defined and governed Prophet’s life and time there in. Continue reading
By Awaam
Pakistan’s first problem is that of identity. We have a firm belief that every successive generation has to redefine its identity and let it evolve with both, time and space. Evolution means that central core features of the past are preserved and new features are added in the new space and time. These new features and values in their own time will become both permanent and critical to the core identity or give way to the new ones. This is, and always have been the way of history. Continue reading
By Awaam
Every Identity has a history and so does that of Pakistan. It is short but tumultuous, although some say it was born with the conversion or settlement of the first Muslim in India. In truly modern sense though India was only itself born, when British firmly established their rule from Afghanistan to Burma, by 1890s. In the process of doing this however, they sowed the seed of national consciousness in the minds of Indians. British influence moulded Indian nationalism by omissions and commissions. However it inevitably also laid the seed of communalism, as different regions and nationalities in the sub continental melting pot, woke up to the British rule and demanded their rights. Continue reading
By Salman Shah | From the Newspaper Dawn 5 August
ACCORDING to a top secret memorandum of the British chiefs of staff dated July 1947: “The area of [West] Pakistan is strategically the most important in the continent of India and the majority of our [British] strategic requirements could be met by an agreement with Pakistan alone.” Continue reading
by Ahmad Ali Khalid on August 6th, 2011
Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create your own story. —Rumi
It’s difficult to have a sensible discussion about gender in Pakistan. We become too apologetic and run to the latest tapes by preachers and televangelists seeking cheap assurances. Let us be blunt, Islam or no Islam – Pakistan has a problem when it comes to women – this is the reality on the ground, and so questions have to be asked. Continue reading
Dawn 5 August 2011
KARACHI: Life stopped for Pakistani cab driver Ghulam Mohammed when his seven-year-old daughter was shot dead on her way home from school, a victim of senseless political and ethnic violence sweeping Karachi. Continue reading
By Bilal Rasul
Executive Summary
The growth of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) has been steady but the full potential for deposit-raising remains untapped.
The resilience of IFIs is a direct consequence of transactions being backed by real assets and prescribed financing contracts/agreements. Continue reading
