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With intensifying economic and political tensions and polarisation, the nature of internal conflicts in societies is evolving...

The more Tariq Aziz was pushed in the background by new realities, the more he was parodied by comedians and, later, in

Denial, panic, scapegoating and ultimate sense are the usual way societies have dealt with new diseases throughout.

Impacted by the growth of the 'politics of identity' in the US, the children grew up looking for their roots. But instead of finding these roots in Pakistan, as such, the children were actually handed explanations in this context by Islamist evangelical o

Is populism a problem? Most political scientists seem to think so.

Who are the ‘parrhay likhay jaahil’ everyone seems to keep talking about?

After romancing the Arabs, we are now viewing our Muslim character through Ottoman lenses, quite forgetting that...

Instead of aiding the judiciary to come to a middle-ground, judicial activism has broken away and sprinted towards populism.

Exponential change, in the context of violence, seems sudden, but its causes are rooted in past emotions.

Muslim scholars have a host of explanations for their followers, about the causes of natural catastrophes.

Religious bigotry can sometimes even unnoticeably colour our sense of community.

Populists are good at peddling fiction as fact, especially during times of their failing. And so it is during this...

Whenever clerics claim Islam is under attack, they are doing nothing more than safeguarding their own power.

Pharmaceutical companies believe that an effective anti-Covid-19 vaccine can appear in the next 12 months.

Pharmaceutical companies believe that an effective anti-Covid-19 vaccine can appear in the next 12 months.

Pakistan's once promising scientific order was invaded and then littered with pseudoscientific hogwash.

Almost every regime is struggling to grapple with the spread of this virus.

Many believers in Muslim, Christian and Hindu societies do not see any dichotomy between faith and science.

The recent reports of the discovery of a plot against the Saudi king may not be as surprising as they seem.

Could Pakistani culture’s gradual ‘Arabisation’ finally be reaching a point of unexpected and ironic turnaround?