The court’s decision to freeze Musharraf’s bank accounts and confiscate his property is a face saving device.

Zakir Naik and other preachers like him (we had Dr Israr Ahmad in this country) are like Bunsen burners of extremism.

We cannot as a nation be run by priests with a divine mission. We cannot be a theocracy.

Many wonder why those involved in terrorism deserve due process; fair trial is what distinguishes us from terrorists.

As many as 7million Pakistani’s are denied their basic fundamental rights otherwise guaranteed under the Constitution.

Of the 130 plus mass shootings in the United States of America this year, only three have been carried out by Muslims.

Till we extend all rights and liberties of Pakistani citizenship to people of FATA, Pakistan will remain incomplete.

In the 80s General Ziaul Haq actively censored Jinnah’s photographs in suits, with dogs, and of him smoking cigars.

Now what did I, a hapless citizen of Pakistan, do to be punished for what is essentially a sin of the state?

To quote Hillary Clinton, you cannot keep poisonous snakes in your backyard and only expect them to bite others.