The elusive COVID19: Good and bad news
Covid-19 is an elusive virus. The common symptoms of Covid-19 are dry cough, fever, sore throat, tiredness and respiratory difficulties. However, there is no...
COVID19 and China bashing: Time to co-operate
The virus has spread to 185 countries, infecting more than 2.3 million patients, and killing over 160,500 worldwide since it first emerged in Wuhan...
Islam vs. COVID19: Religious congregations?
While lockdown was underway, some of the leading Pakistani scholars from the Deobandi, Barelvi and Ahle Hadith schools of thought, announced, they were ready...
Requiem for Pakistan’s democracy
A billionaire member of ruling Tehrik-e-Insaf of Pakistan is currently embroiled in a web of accusations. He, and his business coterie, allegedly obtained financial...
Un-shrouding the Pashtun tahaffuz (protection) movement (PTM)
The PTM emerged on Pakistan’s public scene as a non-violent rights movement. It, initially, just wanted that `extrajudicial’ killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a Pusthun...
COVID19: Religio-scientific theories galore?
Devil must have laughed boisterously at the post-COVID19 `world disorder’. COVID origin is shrouded in mystery, natural transmutation from Pangolin, bats, snakes, and what...
The hullabaloo about tableeghi jama’at (TJ)
In the backdrop of COVID19 surge worldwide, two congregations of the TJ, one (1, 50,000) in Pakistan and another (3,000) in India rippled shock-waves....
Pakistan’s appeal for national-debt write-off
In an interview with Associated Press, our
prime minister called upon world community to write off debt burden of poor
countries so as to help them...
Real threat: Nuclear terrorism or CBW
Speculation about origin of COVID19 has engendered questions about
weapons of mass destruction. A retroviral antidote to COVID19 may yet take
about a year. Germany and...
Why more Indian soldiers die in suicides and fratricides than in combat?
Every now
and then, media flash news of suicides and fratricides in Indian armed forces.
A Sepoy,
Prince Kumar (25), shot himself at Chinar camp in...