“The world order has never been so unstable as it is now. No-one is safe, be it Western established democracies or autocratic regimes. One could never imagine the strikes in the heart of Paris, Brussels, London, Spain or the parliament of India in the ...
Read More »On White Guilt and Social Justice : Put Human Rights First
White guilt is understandable: but it should not stop us seeking Human Rights for all European colonisation killed over a hundred million people. Industrialization allowed pillaging on a scale never before imagined. The Slave Trade, The Sykes-Picot Agreement, the partition ...
Read More »Comment on Prof.(Dr) Khurshid Alam’s article ‘In the Land of Ignorance’
First, my profound thanks to THE PASHTUN TIMES and to Professor Khurshid Alam. I believe that he and I would have several particular disagreements, while at the same time agreeing on the most important principles. It would lead to lively ...
Read More »FATA- The divine status quo
Mainstreaming of FATA is inevitable and the plans for which it was kept as a buffer zone are no more practicable After a rigorous emphasis on mainstreaming FATA in national action plan followed by a consensus amongst the FATA parliamentarians ...
Read More »In the Land of Ignorance
The westerns are blamed for as big as Islamic State and as small as the traffic jam I read the article by Daniel Pipes with great interest and felt some silent realities has been given voice. Though, I beg to ...
Read More »Islamic State expansion to Europe is outcome of wrong policies
Brussels is targeted twice by Islamic State and it is the fifth terrorist attack since May 2014 in Europe. In this March there were two terrorist’ attacks in Turkey too. But the recent attacks will not initiate any military action ...
Read More »East Meets West in the Land of Ignorance
Daniel Pipes, the great American scholar and expert on the Middle East, Islam, and more recently said in a Times of India interview that, “there’s a tendency in west Asia to blame western powers for whatever happens – be it ...
Read More »Political Correctness Is Bad: Discuss
2016. Trump is rising. Right-wing parties loom across Europe. Free expression is under threat. So why is a tree-hugging, lefty, feminist media-lawyer-type like me concerned about the left‘s problem with Free Speech? Should a cisgendered, white, straight, male even be ...
Read More »Musings on the drawings of Ghani Khan
Most of us are familiar with the poetry of Ghani Khan, arguably one of the most important and eminent Pashto poets of the twentieth century. While some are acquainted with his work as a sculptor and painter, his drawings moreover ...
Read More »Ghani Khan: Life and Works
Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, also known by his pen name ‘Lewanae Falsafi’, was a modern Afghan-Pashtun poet and artist of the 20th century, and one of the best speakers of the Central Legislative Assembly of British-India in 1947. He was ...
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