Modi is a man who shouted his radical views from pulpits, in saffron rallies, in media — everywhere

Netanyahu is the man who breaks into your house, throws you to the streets and offers you some space in back quarters

NA-122 may have devastated Khan and vindicated Sharif, but for many this is just National Geographic entertainment

Muslim societies are the greatest violators of Muslim rights, i.e. mob killings in Bangladesh, public floggings in KSA

In Pakistan, having a simple discussion on the origins of our species is to express a resounding death wish

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We can all agree pictures of dead Syrian refugees are worth a lot more

Equating nationalism with regressive tribalism, return to orgiastic abandon with modernity doesn’t make you a liberal

Societies, like organisms, which fail to confer adaptive advantage end up imploding or jump to next evolutionary stage

The question, then, arises: if not Khan, then who? After all, ours is not the preserve of Roosevelts and Jeffersons

For now it appears, at the risk of sounding factitious, that General Raheel Sharif is the batman to Karachi’s Gotham