By Arundhati Roy Courtesy:- The Caravan magazine February 13, 2020 This is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature, instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. Arundhati Roy is the first Indian writer invited to deliver it. Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its one hundred and thirty-second year. When I received the invitation, I scrolled down the list of pr ...

نغمہ حبیب اس وقت ہزاروں لاکھوں پاکستانی دنیا کے دوسرے ملکوں میں مقیم ہیں اور اپنے اپنے میدان کار میں بہترین کام کرکے پاکستان کے لیے نام کما رہے ہیں۔ کئی ڈاکٹرز،انجینئرز،بزنس مین اور سائنسدان خود کو اپنی خداداد صلاحیتوں اور شبانہ روز محنتوں سے ان ملکوں کے بہترین پروفیشنل ثابت کرچکے ہیں بلکہ سیاست میں بھی سرگرم عمل ہیں اور یورپ کے کئی ممالک کی پار لیمنٹوں تک پہنچ چکے ہیں۔ ان محب وطن پاکستانیوں نے وہاں کئی فلا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat n the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Lahore under Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta convicted Hafiz Saeed on February 12 and jailed him for 11 years. His colleague Zafar Iqbal was also given 11 years jail term. 23 prosecution witnesses testified but none could provide any concrete evidence. The prosecutor maintained that Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) were two sides of the same coi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan economy has most of the time been at the brink of collapse and was repeatedly bailed out by world financial institutions. Whenever the economy showed signs of progress and climbed up to reach the stage of take-off, it crashed mysteriously. Our economic managers had to make a fresh start from a scratch. They have been playing snake and ladder game and never bothered to carry out ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan Wuhan city, capital of Hubei Province in China with a population of 11 million people and one of the 10 largest cities in China, was suddenly struck by a deadly virus called Corona. 11 cities in the near vicinity of Wuhan got affected the most by the virus and have been closed. Death toll has soared to 490, with 24,300 infected by virus across China, and ...

نغمہ حبیب کشمیر! یوں تو دہائیوں بلکہ بات صدیوں تک پہنچ چکی ہے کہ غلام ہے ایک کے بعد دوسرے آقا نے اسے اپنی بندشوں میں باندھ کر رکھاہوا ہے لیکن اس بار تو کشمیریوں کی قید تنگ ہوتے ہوتے ان کے گھروں کی حدود تک پہنچ چکی ہے۔ پچھلے کئی مہینوں سے وہ کر فیوکی پابندیوں اور بندشوں میں بندھے ہوئے اپنے گھروں میں قید ہیں،نہ بنیادی انسانی حقوق کی تنظیمیں جاگ رہی ہیں نہ اقوام متحدہ، نہ عالمی طاقتیں اور تو اور مسلمان ممالک ب ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US President Donald Trump exposed the new Middle East peace plan at the White House on January 27, this year. The plan would give Israel most of what it has sought over decades of conflict, while offering the Palestinians the possibility of a state with limited sovereignty and would bury the longtime goal of gr ...