Imagine the mountains with heaving breasts And chiseled limbs Raw and pure the nature’s bride That wild seductress with it’s ancient pride Waiting for you with delphic lores But you and your endless petty chores Chained to concrete and tar Weak, you tiny liliputs Sans mystique of lands afar With ...

      The BJP and the Prime Minister himself have been campaigning about how the farmers are protesting across the country and sitting on dharna at the outskirts of Delhi have been misled. In his speech on December 25, the PM spoke about the situation in Kerala. He said ...

  Truth, love, self-respect Fragile playthings, made of clay Crumble in a moment Still, the world is beautiful Sacred—like Mariam Pure—like falsehood (Patthar ki Zuban, Fahmida Riaz) It was a voice of a young poet communicating to the readers in the 1960s in Pakistan, in a patriarchal, class-ridden society under ...

‘O’ Gracious God bestow the Baloch Nation with persons who are; Sagacious, valiant, magnanimous, compassionate and courageous too Their prudence and sagaciousness be more glorious than the brightest morns Their evergreen wisdom be resplendently dazzling in magnificence and majesty Their minds, thoughts and discernment all free of fetters of obsolete ...

“There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should ...

IT has become relatively commonplace in the past couple of decades to acknowledge the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s critiques of capitalism. Towards the very end of his entertaining biography of Friedrich Engels, Tristram Hunt takes it a step further, citing the comparison made by a Chinese scholar, Ching Kwan ...

Balochistan is a neglected area not only in Pakistan but in Afghanistan and Iran too. Just like so many other nationalities such as Bengalis, Kurds, Pakhtuns, Punjabis, and many others, the Baloch find themselves divided across borders. But that is not our cause of concern here. Our concern is more ...

During the past few months, the politics of the Persian Gulf has changed pretty fast. These changes will have a far-reaching impact not only on the Gulf area but also in the entire Middle East, and on South Asia too. Starting with the UAE, some other countries are also improving ...

When Waris Mir published his series of columns on the religious interpretations of veil, he became a target of severe reproach by conservative circles. Then he responded by even more detailed analysis and refused to bow down to the clergy that in his opinion was responsible for wrong interpretations of ...

Listen! O dark and ravenous dungeon of Karachi! Whenever I sit in front of my cell And look out towards your mighty ramparts, An intricately patterned net. I realize what a cruel world you are How dark and steeped in sin is your path No one is privy to your ...