Lahore’s rickshaws have gone from displaying poetry to advertising burnt bodies of Gujarat, Samjhauta express...

64 years after creation of Pakistan, we have not arrived at any conclusion about our ‘national’ or cultural identity.

The civil-military faultline has been compounded by the addition of two new power-brokers – the courts and the media.

One year on, the judge who sentenced Qadri, the cleric who led Taseer's funeral prayers have fled the country.

Believing conspiracy theories is a serious state of collective denial, needs rectification for stability, survival.

The net effect of collapsed local administration is that we can neither manage disasters nor fight epidemics.

If Islamism was meant to suffer a defeat in the quasi-ideological battle, then the West should be worried.

Taseer's abductors have sent a powerful message that they are stronger than the state, can pick up targets at will.

Each year August 14 generates empty rhetoric by ruling classes and corresponding cynicism by shrinking intelligentsia.

Police behaviour is reflective of how state functionaries are radicalised or helpless before rising tide of Islamism.