The Pakistani Spectator

I will start with the line that one of my very old teachers & friend messaged me this morning…
“Sixty-one years ago a nation was searching for a piece of land, today THAT same piece of land is searching for its nation…”
Is this really where we are…. after these past sixty years?
Or is it what is [...]

It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call [...]

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit [...]

Dear reader, i invite you on a journey through the lands of modern philosophy, whose borders stretch from the fifteenth century to the present days. Let us allow ourselves to be enchanted by its beauty and lure. During this odyssey we shall meet the great philosophers of this realm. Each of these philosophers will have [...]

We are on the road to nowhere as Jean Jacques Rousseau says in the Social Contract, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”. One thinks himself the master of others and still remains a greater slave than they. We are not at all free, it is just intended we should be. The [...]

By Shaheryar Ali at Pak Tea House. Pak Tea House is a little corner in the blogosphere endeavours to revive the culture of debate, pluralism and tolerance Pakistan. It is inspired by the defunct Tea House in Lahore that nurtured several literary and social movements for decades.
“You teach me how to live;I shall learn how [...]