The power outage for over eight to 12 hours per day has ruined the country. Four-year tenure of the incumbent PPP regime is characterized by extreme power shortage and load-shedding with a series of broken promises, un-kept pledges, misplaced priorities and a directionless journey. Industrial production is suffering, exports are on the decline, jobs are [...]
Last week brought a gruesome news for my family, when my cousin, son of my mother’s brother, got killed by a stray bullet when he was returning from his office. My cousin returned from USA after completing his PhD in Computer Science and was running a software house. The family got devastated, and one more [...]
If we don’t want to look and follow the examples from the Christian or other Non-Muslim world to progress in this world, then there are examples from the Muslim world too.
Turkey and Malaysia are two illuminating instances, where besides of maintaining thier Islamic entity, both have progressed a lot. Turkey’s one foot is in Asia [...]
Some 15 years ago, Fifi Haroon tagged him as the bad boy of Pakistan’s Fashion Industry. Now, Deepak Perwani wants to shed off that image and is ready to be a nice boy. And it doesn’t stop there. He’s bored. Even though he has had a successful showcasing at Milan Fashion Week as recent as [...]
At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
Apple also has factories working for it in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the [...]
We cannot name one country with Islamic laws that is a functioning democracy or a benchmark for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness except Turkey.
Muslim majority countries such as Pakistan have a history of thousands of years of customs and folklore shared with India that already plays havoc with the largely uneducated population in [...]
In Malaysia tensions are arising from a row over the use of the word “Allah” to refer to the Christian God. In a country which prides itself over the harmony among the disparate religions, four churches have been attacked over this issue and the situation is getting more tense day by day.
I would like to [...]
There is a dangerous pattern connecting the events happening in and around Pakistan today. Unless we can see this larger picture, we will be overwhelmed by the fallout and our detractors like the US will have fulfilled their agenda for this nuclear capable country. The roots of this US agenda go back to Musharraf’s hasty [...]
In 1947 a nation was looking for a country, today the country is looking for a nation. The concept of nationhood which serves as an important pillar in the development of countries has unfortunately been withered with time. Pakistan is one of the countries having been faced with the crisis of identity. Having been emerged [...]
