Ed Husain, co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, wrote the following essay that was published in the American newspaper Wall Street Journal.

I am fully Muslim and fully Western. Don't call me moderate—call me a normal Muslim.

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Kehnay Mein Kya Harj Hai? Mohammad Malick interviews Ambassador to USA Husain Haqqani Read the rest of this entry

by Ismail Khan

Many might argue that the survivors or victims of the Bangladesh tragedy were those who hardly shared the same location as West Pakistan and, therefore, the lessons were not internalised. The same could also be said about the Taliban, who were initially thought of as a far-flung problem

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When anti-Shia religious extremists kill people in the streets, why does it seem like everyone is afraid of secularism these days? From the Chief Justice to Syed Munawar Hassan, it seems that "secularism" has become the latest fad in bogeys. But what's so scary about secularism?

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This business of the Supreme Court taking it upon themselves to overrule the people's elected representatives in parliament is really getting ridiculous. Now, having failed to fix the match, the Supreme Court appears to be trying a little spot-fixing of its own.

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by K. Ashraf

Pakistan does not need a revolution. What Pakistan needs is Democratic Socialism.

The magic phrase about any successful system is: Confidence.  The confidence in a system comes from equitability, justice and sustainability. Rest of it is just detail, the details of the system, the way the implementers of the system implement it.

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