We are faced with an intolerant generation that is self-righteous, hates dissent and wants everyone to think one way – which is their way. In short, we are reaping the fruits of the seeds we had sown ourselves in our classrooms and society at large. Today it is the misogynist, fascist Imran Khan, tomorrow it can be a right-wing extremist force which will use the same herd to its own advantage and ruin the already religiously intolerant and anti-women society.

By Ania Perveen When Viktor Frankl’s magnum opus Man’s Search For Meaning hit the bookstands and sold millions of copies, the author described this success as a symptom of mass neurosis. He said this since the very title of the book promised meaning to life. This suggests that what most of us lack in life is nothing but meaning and …

The Right has hijacked the vision of a life beyond neoliberal globalization. It’s time for a new progressive internationalism, one that puts solidarity and justice over corporate profits.

Pakistan’s media has been grappling with an existential crisis in recent years, with critical areas going from bad to worse. This includes a staggering two-fifths of media jobs — 8,000 out of 20,000 — being wiped out, partly because of lifeline public sector advertising having shrunk by over half, and a squeezed media economy that is drying up even private sector advertising.

Haniya Minhas has made history yet again by defeating Tunisia's No. 1 player, Zeineb Jaiez, 6-0, 6-0 in her final group match. She has made her country proud by achieving her position in the final 8 out of 24 finest females in the Tennis World Championship

The book covers one manifestation of authoritarianism as defined by the author and follows a set structure. There is a historical overview — in some instances beginning from the colonial era — consisting of key events which illustrate the issue.

Secret video recordings and their use against opponents By Hasan Mujtaba Probably reaching its height in the tug of war in Pakistani power politics, a demonstration of the vulgarity of state power was the secret video recording of intimate moments between Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto as husband and wife, in Islamabad, at the hands of the thuggish Intelligence …

News desk Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif slammed former premier Imran Khan for media censorship during the PTI tenure and said that his government is fully committed to freedom of press and speech in the country. In his statement, a day after the World Press Freedom Day, the prime minister said that Pakistan fell 12 points on World Press Freedom Index …

By Ahmad Faruqui If ever there was a conspiracy to block the democratic process in Pakistan, it was carried out by Imran Khan and his party, not by the US. Just when it seemed that Imran Khan had stopped peddling a conspiracy theory which held the US accountable for his ouster on the 10th of April, he tweeted a clip …

By news desk Minorities Alliance Pakistan (MAP) Chairman Akmal Bhatti Advocate on Wednesday vowed to focus his efforts on promoting pluralism and religious harmony in the country in line with the vision of late Shahbaz Bhatti who was murdered by the extremists eleven years ago. The MAP chairman was addressing a conference titled ‘Minorities’ Unity and Solidarity Conference’ held on …

News desk Was the Masjid-e-Nabwi incident an orchestrated event? This is what several people had asked at the time. Now it is being questioned whether the cases registered against the PTI leaders are the result of hurt religious sentiments or an organized campaign against the former ruling party. Social media users and human rights activists have widely condemned the two …

By Aziz Ali Dad Abstract (A study of transitions, shifts, disruptions, eruptions, severing, splits and cataclysms provides us clues and cues about the nature or condition of an emerging worldview. Among different epochs of change in human history, modernity is unique because it created a sudden rupture in continuity and broke the cyclical nature of history and established a linear …

By Aziz Ali Dad Before delving deep into the debate of religion, it is important to know what makes religion the religion. According to Rudolf Otto religion is about the ‘the Holy’ or ‘numinous’, whereas Emile Durkheim call it ‘the sacred’, whereas, Paul Tillich terms it the object of ‘unconditional concern’. Although these definitions define certain aspect of religion, they …

By Sonya Rehman Pakistani anthropologist, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, is a man on a mission. Having spent over two decades tirelessly researching art and culture in Pakistan, Kalhoro stands as possibly the only Pakistani who has documented the country’s most ancient rock art, some of which can be traced back to prehistoric times. With eleven books to his name, some …

By Zeenat Hisam “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein THE Covid-19 pandemic, which destroyed the livelihoods of billions of workers, exposed the widening inequity in the world between the rich and poor as never before. An important lesson to emerge in the aftermath is the need for a “just transition into the future” and …