Malice Towards None & All
Bowing Before Bazaar’s PowerDr. Ikramul HaqMuch has been written in Pakistan and outside about Mullah-Military alliance but no attention has been given to document the enormous financial support to clergy from the Bazaar. The term Bazaar in Pakistan refers to…
Who should be elected?
Huzaima Bukhari“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master,…
Salvation lies in structural reforms
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf ShakooriPakistan’s persistent economic failures, amongst other factors, are the result of constant disregard of the Constitution by the powerful elites, who are not ready to give up unprecedented benefits, enjoyed at the…
Adieu, ZIM: unique sufi of our time
Dr. Ikramul HaqWithout an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled;…
Adieu, ZIM: unique sufi of our time
Dr. Ikramul HaqWithout an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled;…
On Women’s Day
Huzaima Bukhari“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult”—Charlotte Whitton8 March is globally celebrated as International Women’s Day (IWD). The very fact that a day has…
Who should contest elections?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with”—Matthew (Mathew) HenryThe essence…
Who should not contest elections?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq“Out of sight, out of mind”Apropos to our article “Who should contest election?”, published in these columns on 17 December 2010, which seems to have hurt the sentiments of some of our expatriate friends although…
International Women’s Day
Remembering Mohtarma Fatima JinnahDr. Ikramul HaqMarch 8 marks International Women’s Day. On this day while highlighting the issues faced by women all the world and in Pakistan, we must remember Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, who not only participated in the independence…