Shockwaves out of UAE
Pakistan seeks to lead the Muslim world but civil society in the Middle East is evolving much faster.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Salam’s face blackened
The world rightly ignores complaints of Islamophobia from a country that mistreats its religious minorities.
A military is only for war
Successful societies know that those who fight wars well are not always best suited for running industries, academia, or govt.
Arab cultural narcissism
Arab and Pakistani cultures remain self-congratulatory even eight centuries after Islam’s Golden Age ended.
Classless education up ahead?
Yoking ordinary schools to madressahs will impair the reasoning capacity of children and job competitiveness.
Pak-India education compared
India and Pakistan’s new education policies will push their respective religious minorities into a corner.
Education: PTI’s plan exposed
The SNC massively prioritises ideology over education quality and acquisition of basic skills.
Don’t tear down statues
Left-liberals in the West should ponder the effects of effacing historical symbols as Pakistan-India have.
Dangerous delusions — Ertugrul mania
Faked history fuels revivalist dreams, creates false hopes, & suggests the way forward is through the sword.
Some take science seriously
The state’s scorn for science and surrender to religious forces has put Pakistan’s millions in danger.
HEC: seize the corona moment
What is called online learning can be worth its name if and only if there’s absolute transparency.
Corona — our debt to Darwin
Hopes for dealing scientifically with the virus rest upon Darwin’s discovery of the principle of natural selection.
To see a woman's social standing, just walk through a cemetery and read the gravestones
All males hold on to the name they used along their life’s journey while women's gravestones rarely carry their names.
What when a woman dies?
To see where a woman stands in the social order just walk through a cemetery and read the gravestones.
Lal Masjid: appeasement again?
To reward those who killed our soldiers and policemen is inexplicable and a prescription for a second round.
Why Pakistan loses its best
This is the story of Pakistan’s most recognised mathematician and why we finally lost him.
Today, I am proudly Iranian
Outrage at America’s overseas rampages is joining together peoples with hugely different thoughts and beliefs.
Hooligans in high professions
That so many from the professional classes resort to hooliganism owes to their Ziaist-style school education.
Abdus Salam in China
Dr Abdus Salam’s role in seeking China’s help for Pakistan’s atomic bomb has just been revealed.
Our ghost mathematicians
Ghost teachers in Pakistani rural schools are common enough but few know of our ghost mathematicians.