Nisid Hajari on Jinnah
By Yasser Latif Hamdani In a review of Nisid Hajari’s book “Midnight furies” in the Economist called “Searing Split“, a reviewer had this to say: In particular he focuses, as do most histories of...
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Jinnah’s Pakistan: Actions speak louder than words
By Mohammad Ali Ilahi A never ending debate that has been raging on between the seculars and conservatives for quite some time is about the nature of the country that the Quaid envisioned Pakistan to...
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Fake Quote: Laboratory of Islam
This is how history was distorted in Pakistan in General Zia’s brutal dictatorship. The quote here has taken a life of its own; it has even made it to textbooks. Here is the problem: 1. Jinnah was not...
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Wajid Shamsul Hasan and the Punjab Assembly
Pakistan’s ex-envoy to London Wajid Shamsul Hasan spoke last week at the annual Ahmadi Convention. It was a frank talk which hit home certain important points, the gist of which was that declaring...
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Islamists attempting to concoct another fake Jinnah quote
Some twitter handles are circulating the picture above. I reproduce here the complete discussion by Jinnah on 14 July 1947. As you can see the quote is fake. Q. Could you as governor-general make a...
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The Ahmadi issue Part 1: Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah versus Maulana Azad and Allama...
Pakistan may be too far along on the Ahmadi issue for there to be any meaningful change in our lifetimes. However it is our duty to keep repeating the truth. Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah was the...
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‘Civic Duty’ or ‘Civic Responsibility’?
By Khadija Khan Meeting deadlines, struggling with organizational bureaucracy, and cold weather as well as absolute agitation over the ‘Signal Free Gulberg’ I snarled my way through the jam-packed...
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گل امید فروزاں رہے تیری خوشبو
تحریر: طاہر احمد بھٹی۔فرینکفرٹ۔جرمنی ایک چھوٹے زمیندار کا پانچ ایکڑ کماد تھا جس میں سور گھس گئے۔ اس نے کوک فریاد کی تو بستی اور ارد گرد کے ڈیروں سے کوئی سو ڈیڑھ سو لٹھ بردار، آٹھ دس بندوقچی ، پچیس تیس...
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Why Secularism
By Najeeb Kakar Pakistan has often been experienced the religious orthodoxy since its inception. It has engendered religious narratives among the people who recalls secularism as a non-Islamic...
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Jinnah Fought for the Minorities
By Aiman Sohail It’s 2016, Pakistan is almost 70 years old and I wonder if this is how Sir Jinnah had wanted Pakistan to turn out? Probably not. People are going to think I’m being negative, which...
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Independence Day: Looking Back & Moving Ahead
By Sarah Naqvi “We are stronger together” were the echoes repeatedly delivered at at the Democratic National Convention a few weeks ago in the United States. The first thought that came to mind upon...
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Censoring Jinnah: Express Tribune’s shameful surrender
By Yasser Latif Hamdani This blog was originally published on Jinnah’s birthday this year on Express Tribune (ET). It was taken down last night by the ET after a group of internet trolls “inspired by...
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Secular Jinnah and the so called Department of Islamic Reconstruction
By Yasser Latif Hamdani Before fake news there was Orya Maqbool Jan. These are the people who brought you Jinnah’s diary which was discovered in the 1980s by Zia’s government. I have already written...
View ArticleJinnah’s Pakistan: Response to Hussain Nadim in Express Tribune
By Yasser Latif Hamdani Every few months Express Tribune publishes an article with someone or the other complaining about the idea of “Jinnah’s Pakistan”. It is a bit of a tradition it seems. Hussain...
View ArticleTarek Fatah’s lies about the Direct Action Day
Tarek Fatah who revels in distorting history has once again used his column in the Toronto Sun to distort the facts about Direct Action Day by claiming that Jinnah unleashed his thugs to kill Hindus –...
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