In Urdu there are many words originating from ‘hajj’ meaning many things apparently quite apart from one another.

Army's has been proved wrong in the failure of its strategic depth policy, must return foreign policy to civillians.

The original word must have been ‘Syedi’ meaning ‘my lord’ in Arabic. Why should a Sindhi person be called...

In numerous talks between militants-army, abundant lack of commitment to pacts has been demonstrated by the Taliban.

The Quran talks of ‘ghairat’ in different terms, definitely not sanctioning a revenge-based tradition that we follow.

Flexibility of response is suited to conduct of states than men. Altering national interest to save lives is needed.

The name Hazare stumps me. It has no etymology except that it is related to the Urdu word ‘hazar’ meaning ‘thousand’.

Iran quarantined its non-state actors; Pakistan allowed its terrorists to penetrate society and is paying the price.

Readers must have come across that mysterious word ‘na-kat-khuda’ on a wedding card? What does it mean?

Imran has read Allama Iqbal, Ali Shariati, but he is more like Syed Qutb, too reactive, a politician of extremes.