Hindustan Times
Obama, as is often said, will always be more popular than his policies. It is impossible not to pay attention to what he says; he’s still viewed as the well-meaning guy who broke some real barriers to get where he did. Read more
(8 votes, average: 1.38 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Filed under World · Tagged afghanistan, Hindustan Times, James Traub, John Cassidy, Nasr, New Yorker, Obama, Pakistan, They call me Muslim, Wall Street Journal, Zia Haq
No part of Gandhi’s life has escaped scholarly attention in a corpus of a little over a century. Literature on him is abundant. Read more
(32 votes, average: 2.03 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Filed under India, Religion, World · Tagged colonial nationalism, Einstein, Hindustan Times, liberal secularism, Literature, Mahatma Gandhi, Muslim nationalism, news, Pakistan, They call me Muslim, Zia Haq
Many Indians still feel that we should not relent on Pakistan, use our diplomatic and economic clout to make it pay a nasty price for the Mumbai attacks. Maybe we can. Pakistan lacks the money without which wars can neither be fought nor won and has few international backers for a conflict against India today. Read more
(20 votes, average: 2.7 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Filed under India, Religion, World · Tagged Hafiz Saeed, Hindustan Times, India, isi, Israeli Palestinian conflictthey call me muslim, Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mohammed Waqas Sajjad, Mumbai attacks, news, Pakistan, Taliban, Zia Haq
My singular mission during an extensive trip to Pakistan was to get under the skin of the people I met, know what they thought about India and the current raft of India-Pak bonhomie. Read more
(20 votes, average: 3.3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Filed under World · Tagged 2611, 9/11, agra talks, America, Ashraf J Qazi, china, India, isi, islamabad, kargil, major iqbal, new delhi, Pakistan, Pakistan's high commissioner, Zia Haq
What could be the single-most profound fallout of the September 2001 attacks, or 9/11, ten years on? It is the surreal state of permanent war, intermittent peace. In a way, the events wiped out the last remaining vestiges of universal innocence. Read more
(25 votes, average: 2.28 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Filed under World · Tagged 9/11, afghanistan, al qaeda, America, Eid, iraq, Islam, Muslims, Pakistan, September 2001 attacks, terror, US Budget deficit, Zia Haq
Before the first word of this essay is written, let a prophecy be made: Blinkered nationalists may accuse me of writing a puff piece on Pakistan, something far from the truth. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3.39 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged banana republic, Bulley Shah, Guru Nanak Dev, Hindustan Times, kangaroo courts, Keats, medieval values, Milton, neo-Islamist outfits, news, North Indian Muslims, Nusrat, Pakhawaj, Pakistan, Sadat Hasan Manto, Shelley, SM Qureishi, Taliban, Tufail Niazi, Waris Shah
Pakistan ranks 151 and just below Yemen on the UN’s human-development indicators. On schooling, it has found a place just below Sudan. “Growth and investment will continue to be constrained…,” Pakistan’s budget-eve Economic Survey said on June 4. Its economy is expected to grow 4.5% in the year starting July 1. India expects to grow 8.5%. Read more
(16 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Azad Kashmir, Custodial killings, Gaza, growth, human right violations, human-development indicators, Kashmir, Pakistan, Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Shopian case
Sania Mirza’s decision to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik could not have been plain easy. Nor could she have taken it without courage, scruples and a clean conscience. Read more
(59 votes, average: 2.54 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Monday, April 5, 2010 at 12:26 am
Filed under India · Tagged 2611, India, Mumbai Teeor Attack, Pakistan, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, Sania Mirza, shoaib Malik
In New Delhi’s Connaught Place commuter Metro station, millions cross a flashboard message fit enough to be our national anthem: “None of us is stronger than all of us”. This is rip-snorting good to be the collective mantra of all humanity as well. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged Connaught place, Connaught Place commuter Metro station, Gujarat riots, Metro station, Muslims, Pakistan, Ram temple in Ayodhya
