Qasmi traces how women of the Subcontinent were denigrated to pre-Islamic status, violating rights accorded by Islam

Every time you hate someone who is culturally coextensive with you, you end up hating a part of yourself.

Hegemons taken down by an inferior civilisation end up giving us a worse world to live in.

Reading Aminullah Chaudhry's memoir I can say he may have been harmlessly ‘uppity’ but did not deserve to be despised.

When state becomes shy about regimentation, it raises flag of ‘unity’, a coercive need of scared or aggressive state.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution.

Musharraf had gone dutt in the beginning only to see the world willing to take out Pakistan, the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Pakistan’s problems are almost always blamed on invisible external hands, opposed to real internal decline and decay.

In today’s democr­acy, people are danger­ous elemen­ts, even their repres­entati­ves have to be muffle­d.

Saleem Shehzad could have been killed by army and intelligence officials who have crossed over to the militants.