AI Empowered Writing Tools: There is a Need of Humane Touch
Dr Shalini Yadav (Writer, Editor & Professor) If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down …Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else. —Natalie Goldberg Post-pandemic, every one wishes his or her voice to be heard; works to be appreciated and identity to be acknowledged. The world […]
Pakistan’s Self-Serving Obsession Over Kashmir
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” tweeted the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition on August 23. While this is the aspiration of the world’s democracies, the concepts of human rights and equality are […]
Pak Anarchy Spreads to PoJK
By Samuel Baid During his 44 months rule as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan mainly concentrated on exposing earlier ruler’s corruption, ignoring his duties towards his countrymen. After his ouster, he was exposed for corruption. He told the truth about his opponents and the opponents told the truth about him when they came to power. […]
When Pakistan Shunned Dr Abdus Salam of advancing its Space Programme
With India’s successful landing on the moon on Wednesday, social media is discussing how Pakistan is lagging behind its neighbour in the field of science and technology. While the factors that contributed to this lack of progress in scientific research in Pakistan are multifold, religious bigotry has been one of the main hurdles. Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate […]
Consequences of End of Sardar’s Influence In Baluchistan
By Samuel Baid In 1972, when he had been made the Chief Martial Law Administrator-cum-President of the just truncated Pakistan by country’s defeated Army, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said the problem of Baluchistan was its Sardars. He was hostile to them because in the December 1970 elections, under their influence, Baluchistan totally rejected his Pakistan […]
Bygone Love-Hate Emotion
By Samuel Baid The emotion of love and hate that marked India-Pakistan relations in the past did not allow the stalemate between the two neighbors to persist without an end. But Pakistan’s political leadership that replaced seasoned leaders in 2018 did not show any sensitivity about relations with neighbors. In fact, they did not […]
What Produced TTP And Other Terror Groups?
By Samuel Baid United States former Secretary of States Hillary Clinton must have sounded like a voice in the wilderness when she warned Pakistan against rearing poisonous snakes in its backyard. By these snakes she obviously meant terrorists in the garb of Islam. They project Islam as a face of terrorism. This is more […]
Sectarian Divide in Pakistan
By Samuel Baid From the Karachi newspapers in the early 1970s, one gets an impression that there was harmony between Shias and Sunnis. To some extent, it was reflected in the matrimonial advertisements in the Urdu newspapers. Some of them said: “we are cultured people from UP (India). Gentlemen from Punjab and Kashmir should […]
A 150 Years Old Hindu Temple Disappears Under Nose of Police in Karachi
Despite all the hue and cry, the crime of kidnapping young Hindu girls to force them become Muslims to marry Muslim men goes on and so goes on destruction of Hindu temples to make them become shopping malls. Last month (July) two heinous crimes took place in Karachi within the space of about more than […]
TLP Targets For Coming Elections
By Samuel Baid Tehrik-e-Labbaik, Pakistan (TLP) seems to have made anti-Ahmadiyya campaign in Punjab as its election campaign this year end. The TLP is the re-christened name of Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA), an organization of Barelvi fanatics who rose from the grave of Mumtaz Qadri, who had been executed for killing Governor […]