By Anwaar Hussain Meerwala is a small, dusty village in the mostly rural Muzaffargarh District in the south of Punjab province of Pakistan. This small, nondescript village has produced a personality whose name has been reverberating across the globe for some years now. The name of this person is Mukhtaran Bibi (also known as Mukhtar [...]

By Masood Hasan As institutions and all that we once held in great esteem fall around us like ninepins in a bowling alley where the players have gone berserk, very few of us now have the luxury of taking a step back and simply evaluating our position. Instead, we seem to be swept along the [...]

By Ayaz Amir Times may be hard but why add to the sum of national misery? Some of our afflictions, like the economic downturn and the war raging along the Afghan frontier, may be beyond anyone’s control. But some are entirely self-created. We are not a police state in the political sense of the term. [...]

A Truth Spring exclusive By Pervaiz Alam* The other day I was driving on one of Islamabad’s roads when I saw a black Mercedes slightly bumping into a car moving ahead. Four young men alighted from that car, rushed to the Mercedes, dragged out the young driver and started beating him, calling him a drunkard. [...]

By Anwar Hussain This is a fascinating story so behold. Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. His full name was Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab or Tipu Saheb Tipu Sultan. He was not just a ruler but also a scholar, [...]

By Joe Palmer East Africa: In 1966 the U S Agency for International Development built a residential school for the training of teachers in Somalia near the city of Afgoi on the Shabelle River a dozen miles inland from the capital city, Mogadishu. The construction contract was given to a company in Nairobi, Kenya. There [...]

TS Note: On this day, in 2007, the most momentous political assassination of our time claimed the life of Benazir Bhutto and plunged a nation into mourning. The article below was written in the aftermath of that ominous event. Here it is once again on her first death anniversary. Whoever killed her, snuffed out the [...]