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Don’t surrender to mob rule
A similar open call for murder and mutiny by other Pakistanis would meet extreme punishment.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Why attempts to reform Pakistani education fail
Every attempt to modernise education has run into an invisible brick wall of culture and conservatism.
Europe’s perplexed Pakistanis
Why do Pakistanis enjoying the West’s pluralism stay silent about pluralism within Pakistan?
Religious bias okayed
To wilfully use religious sentiment for worldly gain is now firmly part of Pakistan’s political culture.
A Pakistani Hawking?
Pakistan has produced many good cricketers and businessmen but not a single mathematician.
July elections: the certainties
These elections will be neither free nor fair but to vote is still important.
Cyber intimidation: a bad idea
To gag voices that dare criticise abuse of power cannot lead to a better and more viable Pakistan.
The ‘Salam Centre’ brouhaha
Science suffocates when scientists are judged by their religion, race or ethnicity.
What India owes to Nehru
India would have been a dump for crackpot science had Modi been its first prime minister.
A university self-destructs
Greed-propelled professors must be stopped from wrecking Quaid-i-Azam University.
Missile worship not warranted
Missiles like Shaheen or Agni are minor technical feats but testing them helps create war psychosis.
Ramanujan and Salam — what inspired them?
Exceptional genes plus fortunate circumstances is why some become maths-science superstars.
Manipulating Pakistani minds
While PTV can be criticised, it has stayed above the gutter-level broadcasts of some private TV channels.
Don’t dare mention Yemen
Siding with those who deliberately seek to starve Yemen’s children has degraded Pakistan’s moral status.
Mainstreaming jihad: why now?
Operation Zarb-i-Azb’s success has persuaded the army that deviant militants can be successfully crushed.
Textbooks – kudos to Punjab
There’s a belated realisation that thousands of Pakistani lives were lost to militancy fuelled by hate material.
The QAU strike explained
The most worrying aspect of the QAU strike is that it exposes Pakistan’s failed attempt at nation building.
Is IS actually bad? UnIslamic?
Pakistan’s generals and politicians would rather bomb IS than argue logically against it.
Deradicalising our universities
Football and cricket are supposed to keep students away from guns and bombs. Should one laugh or cry?
Holy men — theirs and ours
Religion in politics produces a highly toxic, explosive mix.