No respite in Lahore: Gunmen storm Jinnah Hospital
No respite in Lahore: Gunmen storm Jinnah Hospital, 12 dead Just as we thought that the government will proceed with investigations, another act of…
UK Election: Yasmin Qureshi, MP
Yasmin Qureshi, a barrister in the UK, is one of the few Muslim women of Pakistani origin to have entered the British Parliament. Despite…
Is this Jinnah’s Pakistan?
The massacre of Ahmadis in Lahore has once again exposed the inner fissures of our society. As if treating them like second class citizens…
Al-Jazeera: Deaths in Pakistan mosques raids
Al-Jazeera Armed men attack minority religious sect’s places of worship in Lahore. Assailants with guns and grenades have attacked two mosques in the eastern…
Lahore – a nightmare that is still not over
Updated: my quotes in Tehran Times Today’s events in Lahore have shaken the entire country. The zealots and the bigots aside, an ordinary Pakistani…
Lahore’s now the latest target of Taliban
Quoted in The New York Times Once again the terrorists have hit Lahore. But this time they have chosen the favourite target of the…
Pakistan loses young Facebook friends
Raza Rumi was quoted by the Australian The Lahore High Court banned access to the social networking site on Wednesday after conservative Islamic lawyers…
Pakistan seethes on Twitter, Blackberry ban
I was quoted here and here Islamabad : Pakistanis are hopping mad following the ban on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and the blocking…
Beyond censorship
Facebook blocked the page with the caricatures from being accessed in Pakistan and the ban was lifted on May 31; but not until after…
Whatever happened to Kerry-Lugar?
Pakistan’s dire fiscal situation has resulted in the reduction of development spending by 40 per cent. This does not bode well for the citizens…
Divide or perish: creating new provinces in Pakistan
My piece published in TFT Since 1947, two characteristics of the Pakistani state have continued to haunt its legitimacy and survival. The first relates…
Pakistan: A failing society?
My recent op-ed: A couple of weeks ago a conference at the Lahore School of Economics allowed me to pontificate on how Pakistan is…