Opinion

What Muslims are in fact rejecting is the process of suiting themselves to changing circumstances.

I walk into Mohalla Qazian in Nowshera district. It is on the banks of the mighty Kabul River.

Allama Iqbal’s message which had filled millions of Muslims with revolutionary zeal has been forgotten in Pakistan.

It has become a ritual to celebrate Independence Day every year without considering whether we have achieved it or not

Independence Day 1947, 63 years ago, was fraught with violent birth-pangs, death and destruction.

Someone once told me — ask the Kashmiris, ask the Chechens, ask the Palestinians how precious freedom is.

Asif Ali Zardari: Hot. Yousaf Raza Gilani — Not hot. Being “hot or not” in politics is a game of “value addition”.

Major efforts are required to deal with multiple challenges in order to help minimise suffering of the hapless masses.

Recent torrential rains have affected over 20,000 people in seven districts of the region.

Recently, President Asif Ali Zardari made a strange public statement, one among many of his peculiar gems.

The massive floods across the length of Pakistan have exposed yet another aspect of deteriorating governance.

Since we spend most of our waking hours at work, how do we know we are putting our best foot forward?

Fashion will continue to progress in Pakistan, come hell or high water.

In the aftermath of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, US helicopters lifted in millions of dollars worth of aid.

One thing is for sure: President Asif Ali Zardari is a determined man.

If a shoe falls on a president and no one is there to record it, did it make a splash?

Can’t we even get through a national emergency without flinging dirt on each other, staging a few “sit-ins”.

Power centres are busy in point-scoring as if the devastation was a playground for political mileage.

What is likely to be forgotten is the promise embedded in the new land.

To expect people to evacuate on their own is not going to work. The government needs to take charge.

The fact that this is the largest disaster does not mean that nobody can be apportioned responsibility.

One often wonders how a country run by a bunch of total lunatics can be expected to perform a reasonable job.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said something in India that made him an instant celebrity in Pakistan.

The heaviest rains in about 80 years and I still have a roof over my head, still have a home, am still ‘here’.