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Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: One of the litmus tests for any country’s claim to civility and inclusiveness is how it treats its religious minorities. Religious minorities make up about 4 percent of Pakistan’s indigenous population, comprising…

Hakim Fateh QUETTA: Well-known English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton put forward that "education is simply the soul of society which passes from one generation to another". To put it in a simple way, education is an eternal and…

 Ishtiaq Ahmed  Islamabad: The Commonwealth games, often referred to as the Friendly Games, is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: Hajj, one of the five tenets of Islamic belief and practice, is obligatory for all those who have the means to make pilgrimage to Makkah at least once in their lifetime for this purpose. There are many valuable…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: Inevitable has happened.  After months of wrangling, incriminations and posturing, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of Britain, was forced into resignation on Thursday (July 7) thus opening up a real possibility…

Mukhtar Karim Quetta: Throughout human history, mankind have not been too adept to learn from events whether these be of their making or natural occurrences. This perhaps is more true now than it was before which should not be the…

Mukhtar Kareem Quetta: For me, the most interesting thing has been reading books. Books are not only a repository of knowledge but also a guide for the future for us and our generations to come. In this sense, books provide a valuable…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: The above question was sent today by my esteemed friend Mushtaq Alam from Bradford, UK. Firstly, in any country Judiciary is an essential part of overall governance where the three arms of governance - parliament…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: The screening of The Lady in Heaven which Muslims have claimed to be blasphemous and racist has been taken off by a UK cinema chain, after the cinema outlets were picketed by Muslims. The statement by the…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: Some weeks back I wrote a piece drawing policymakers' attention to the dire situation in which the public education sector finds itself. Our education system for the masses has been on a downward slippery slope for…