Tariq Aqil

Power of educated women

If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman you educate a nation” this quote originally attributed to Brigham Young,…

Ticking time bomb of over population

Mohammed Asif Javed a citizen of Pakistan killed himself by self-immolation in the premises of the Lahore High Court. He happened to be just one…

Improve National Moral Integrity or perish

  There are many reasons why nations have failed and ended up on the dust heap of history. The reasons could be economic, social or…

Pakistan and malignant tumor of corruption

  CORRUPTION can best be defined as a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that…

Secularism: Misunderstood political philosophy

SECULARISM, a political philosophy that has been misunderstood and maligned endlessly in Pakistan claiming that it is something against religion or against any belief in…

Illusion of Peace in Ghaza

Just before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the USA, the brutal Israeli onslaught on Ghaza came to a stop. The…

Religious extremism and consequences

THE religious beliefs of the founding fathers of Pakistan and their political ideology of an Islamic country were completely different from what this country is…

Tragedy in pursuit of a better life abroad

THOUSANDS and thousands of young Pakistanis risk life and limb to reach European countries by putting their fate in the hands of human smugglers and…

Dr. Sardar Manmohan Singh: A giant among pygmies

Dr. Sardar Man Mohan Singh the quite unassuming modest economist and former Prime Minister of India and the first from the Sikh community to be…

Ghosts of 1971 tragedy

  December 16th 1971, a date that will live in infamy in the tumultuous history of Pakistan. It has now been 53 years since the…

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