By Irfan Husain
Consider this demographic projection for the UK, and ponder its implications for a moment: within five years, the majority of babies will be born to unmarried parents.
However, before you put this down to yet another example of Western immorality, just remember that all these babies will have the same legal rights as [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Finally, the battle on the one-time protégés begins–the battle that was first promised in June and for which troops had been gathering on Waziristan’s horizons for the past four months. The critical delay not only enabled the militants to overcome the reverses they had suffered in the Malakand region earlier during the summer [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
With the audacious Taliban attack at the GHQ main gate this Saturday, the very portal wherefrom these creatures came slithering out more than two decades back, the affair between the creator and the creations has come full circle. Knock knock, said the hypnotized oddballs, rudely shaking their masters out of their reverie– perhaps [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Some have romanticized them, others have idolized them, and yet others have abhorred them. All have feared them, however. Over the years, the Taliban have acquired an image of mysterious allure and danger, until the truth about them now hardly matters.
Here is the situation.
A leading religious politician, who is also a sitting partner [...]

By Anwaar Hussain

We have saved Islam yet again.

With the burning alive of seven Christians in their houses in Gojra and injuring another 70 in the process, our faith emerges ever victorious, ever stronger. Almost a hundred houses too were damaged in the Christian colony there just in case the unfortunate minorities in [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Now that the state of Pakistan has effectively rolled over, paws up, at the feet of the beheaders, it is time to get a glimpse into the abyss the state has brought us onto.
But before that glimpse, the lessons first.
The lesson that other militants draw from the state’s capitulation to the Taliban in [...]

By Irfan Husain
THIS year will see a large number of celebrations at campuses and scientific institutions around the world to mark the 200th year of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th year of the publication of his seminal work.
Widely regarded as one of the three most influential thinkers of the 19th century, together [...]