The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
My last column ‘Takfir and terrorism’ evoked some responses which were brusque in articulation but well-meaning in intent and purpose....
Like khalafah, umma, jihad and shahadat, takfir has attained a wide currency in modern day Muslim discourse. For analysts, takfir has a peculiar...
Never was the necessity for political consensus more desperately felt than in recent days. The attack on a strategic site like Karachi airport was...
Books dealing with how the South Asian Muslims responded to their ‘decline’ after the War of Independence give a lot of importance to...
Professor Waseem’s brief sojourn to the University of Cambridge, UK, and his talk to graduate students at the Centre of South Asian Studies...
Narendra Damodardas Modi, 63, will be sworn in on May 26, 2014, as the 12th prime minister of the ‘world’s biggest...
Pakistan, like any other postcolonial state, continued to stick to the structures laid down by the British even after independence. Thus, the birth...
Imparting education to its citizens is an enterprise which has received scant attention by those managing the Pakistani state. The consequence of...
Despite its importance as a large province, Punjab and its history remain neglected areas. Therefore an attempt is being made here to scrutinise its...
The ‘identity’ as a social construct defies any plausible definition -- not because it is a complex cognitive category but because it is...