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Pervez Hoodbhoy: The HEC saga
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) stands on death row. Appeals for reprieve have been rejected by the commission responsible for implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment. That commission’s chairman, Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, declared...
Syed Talat Hussain: Critical Questions
CONSUMED by the day-to-day politics of survival, the government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is oblivious to the many million-dollar questions staring Pakistan in the face.
One question relates to the possibility of more drone attacks...
Jawed Naqvi: Media self censorship
IF all journalism were objective there would be no need for Al Jazeera to become a raging foil to BBC, CNN or Fox News for the coverage of Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. There would be no exclusive credibility given to Noam Chomsky, John Pilger...
Khaled Ahmed: Did Jinnah envisioned secular Pakistan?
On the night of March 7, 2011, Justice (retd) Javid Iqbal was interviewed on a TV channel on the nature of the Pakistani state. He held that Pakistan, as envisaged by Jinnah, was to be a secular state. This is the package he has always accepted...
Ayesha Siddiqa: Military Education
In a rather strange move, the education ministry has made an odd proposal to the government regarding amendments to the charter of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML). The proposal pertains to command and control of the university,...
Mowahid Hussain Shah: Change and Challenge
The hearing at the US Congress entitled “The Extent of Radicalisation in the American Muslim Community and That Community’s Response”, held by the House Homeland Security Committee, and chaired by Congressman Peter King of New York,...
Asif Ezdi: Election Commission’s responsibility
The secretary of the Election Commission told the press last week that out of the 81 million registered voters in the parliamentary elections of 2008, only 44 million could be confirmed as genuine. This finding had been made in a scrutiny...
Zafar Hilaly: Old habits die hard
Alas, old habits die hard, hence the current stance — ‘we oppose drone attacks and are trying our utmost to persuade the US to desist’. Considering that drones, if not actually parked in Pakistan, enjoy access to our bases and have thankfully...
The New World Balance by Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi
At the dawn of the 21st century, America was the undisputed global superpower with no apparent peer on the horizon who could challenge its interests in trade, diplomacy and military might. In the last decade, after terrorist attacks of 911,...
Death of Salman Taseer by Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi
The assassination of Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, by a religious zealot has once again initiated the debate on the role of religion in Pakistani society. For quite sometime many politicians and intellectuals have been debating the true...
