Wake Up, Smell the Coffee

On June 10, 1946, Hatim A. Alavi wrote to Jinnah {Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers,  Volume XIII, Cabinet Mission's Parleys for S...

The answer is probably somewhere out there - on July 27, 1946, Jinnah's address to the Muslim League includes this: Mr. Jinnah proceede...

The results of the provincial elections of 1946 in India, as per the Annual Register (click on the images for a larger view):

Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy. Let me recount some personal experiences. The day after Taseer’s assassination, FM-99 (Urdu) called me for...

Pakistan’s Islamic fixation — King Farouk/Faruq of Egypt on Pakistan‘s Islamic fixation quoted in “Mainsprings of Indian and Pakistani forei...

The extra-judicial killing of blasphemers may be embedded in Pakistan's cultural DNA.  I say so because I came across a poem by Pakista...

R.K. Kaushik tells us: Salman Taseer was murdered because of his stand on the blasphemy law regarding Holy Prophet. There is a strange co...