Nadeem F. Paracha
Is it a real manifestation of the expressions of the working and lower-middle classes or is it imposed from above?
Updated 07 Mar, 2021 08:35am
Those who reach a position of power through angry votes often don’t need to do anything.
Updated 28 Feb, 2021 08:34am
‘Crisis of secularism’ bemoaned by some scholars fails to acknowledge secularism has evolved in a highly complex manner.
Updated 21 Feb, 2021 08:24am
The problem of manufactured histories is not limited to the developing countries. The current upheaval in the developed...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:47am
An anti-intellectual attitude is often part and parcel of a politically influential middle-class.
Updated 07 Feb, 2021 08:30am
Is it the paranoia of losing power to them that leads to prejudice and discrimination against minority groups?
Updated 31 Jan, 2021 08:59am
The ‘establishment’ is not a shadowy conspiracy but a position of visible power that many want to become a part of.
Updated 24 Jan, 2021 08:28am
The current prime minister is not very different from his populist contemporaries in other developing countries.
Updated 17 Jan, 2021 08:13am
Radicals feel strongly that a boycott of elections is necessary to delegitimise the sitting regime and expose the polls as bogus.
Updated 10 Jan, 2021 11:10am
Islam’s rational past defies views of fundamentalists who challenge modernity by romanticising the past.
Updated 03 Jan, 2021 08:22am
Political leaders now spend more time on cultural and moral issues rather than what they were once expected to do.
Updated 27 Dec, 2020 08:17am
The Pakistan Democratic Movement’s agenda is clear — to exhaust its opponents.
Updated 20 Dec, 2020 07:40am
Realising their inability to address and resolve real problems, politicians opt to present themselves as guardians of morality.
Updated 13 Dec, 2020 09:11am
Like ‘strongmen’ of the Cold War, current breed of political ‘strongmen’ are thought to provide muscular, assertive leadership.
Updated 06 Dec, 2020 10:26am
Controversial preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s sudden death threw liberals into a conundrum over how to talk about him.
Updated 29 Nov, 2020 09:12am
‘Self-Orientalism’, ironically, looks towards assumed Western authority for validation.
Updated 22 Nov, 2020 08:37am
The term deep state means a very different thing in countries such as Pakistan.
Updated 15 Nov, 2020 11:57am
Pakistan has a long history of governments accusing the political opposition of being externally funded.
Updated 08 Nov, 2020 08:28am
We are now seeing ministers adopting the role.
Updated 01 Nov, 2020 08:37am
Nawaz Sharif adds a more universal and multi-ethnic dimension to the PML-N.
Updated 25 Oct, 2020 08:34am