Neoliberalism and Madrassas: An Unholy Connection

How these schools (madrassas) are perhaps an indirect consequence of structural adjustment policies that are dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

World View and Expectations from Pakistani Universities

Education isn't the Magic Bullet for Terrorists

What makes an educated person suddenly decide to break all these education and culturally provided societal constraints and go off to murder innocent people? It

Lighting The Nuclear Fire

nuclear affairs are now being guided by wishful, delusional, thinking

Musty Tomes Full of Trouble

Before independence, the British Indian education system was oriented on the Macaulay model fit to churn out clerks and basic administrators. Post independence, we clearly

Texan Poker Bluff and Persian Chess Moves

Many analysts have been warning since 2004 against a planned US attack alone or in cahoots with Israel on Iran, one of the so called

Nude Art and the 'Pure Land'

In Pakistan even normal art has been taboo, then what about “nude art”? It does exist, and Pakistan has got

This Beloved Arab Colony

Often times, arguments and ideas are no more than recycled sloganeering, little sober effort in evidence. For this reason, the narrower sects of Islam upset

Relevance of English Studies in India

The need of the hour is to decolonise our English Studies by judging English literary texts not by European critical tools, but by Indian critical

Whence Then is Evil?

Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot; or he can, but does not want to…If he cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but

Cosmetic Surgery

Karachi University Students must now wear black gowns while they’re inside the campus ...the decision was taken so that teachers

Medicalising Pakistan

A recent visit to Pakistan was the eye opening one. There was one pharmacy in my neighborhood a few years ago, but now the small

Is 'E-Art' the future for Visual Expression?

Would there be any real feel or smell of the original paints mixed with oil or water, or the electronic palette with more choice of

Teach Students to Think

We are forced to learn the dates Wars were fought by heart, but the reason why they started in the first place are never discussed.

Searching for Identity in Our Little Corner

Where is our Solar system located? What is our identity, no matter how inconsequential, with respect to the vast cosmic

Invasion of Iraq, the hidden story

This essay focuses on the political issues and reasons that led to the American invasion.