Stories by mobarak-haider

Where is the end?

As helpless observes of our disaster, we can just cry while they continue killing Christians, Ahmedis and Shias, and target our finest men.

Published 12 Mar, 2013 10:09am

Corruption: A twinborn with Pakistan

A society that believes in a noble religion but practices the opposite of what it admires has to comfort itself with something big.

Published 05 Mar, 2013 11:24am

Coexistence with India - III

Our alienation from the rest of mankind is not the only tragedy. Division within the Muslim camp starts on the issue: “Who is a true Muslim?”

Published 26 Feb, 2013 07:11am

Coexistence with India – II

Our self-righteousness so limits our sense of justice that what we practice with great pomp and show, seems hateful to us if others desire it.

Published 19 Feb, 2013 10:37am

Coexistence with the world

Islam's role must end as a weapon in the hands of an aggressively pretentious but totally uncreative mullah, writes Mobarak Haider.

Published 12 Feb, 2013 09:13am

Coexistence with India

What our army and government have now decided to fight is a threat not only to Pakistan but to the entire region’s peace. We must combat this monster, however painful the sacrifices.

Published 05 Feb, 2013 10:25am

A society at war with itself

We believe that we were always on the right side, that we were persecuted. It was always hard for us to ask: are we really so innocent? Why does the world hate us?

Published 29 Jan, 2013 11:10am

Another lesson of time

"Befuddle the people with magic, intoxicate them with a charged emotion, and take away their ambition for equality; so that they abandon their claims."

Published 22 Jan, 2013 08:46am

“Who deployed the Qadri brigade?”

To propound a conspiracy theory is the sole prerogative of those who do not see any conspiracy in this drama.

Published 19 Jan, 2013 09:33am

At the crossroads of tragic possibilities

Our psyche of physical force blinds us. By insisting on the crude control of our national units, we forget the principles of unity.

Published 15 Jan, 2013 10:26am

Self love and its fruits

Whatever the motivation of Pakistan’s founding fathers was, our aristocracy and clerics were clear on their mission of keeping us sick with nostalgia and pride.

Published 08 Jan, 2013 08:53am