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Malala Yousufzai

Shangla Augury

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla District personifies the violent ‘badlands’ since eons. Ancient relics of Alexander’s Greek army, Buddha sculptures and the mushrooming of madrassas are part of its antiquity and civilisational turmoil.

Books and Pens

Ergo, the plight of minorities to the west of the Radcliffe Line was beyond the scope of her presentation.

Against the odds

Happily for the civilised world, the 2018 Nobel Peace prize has gone to the richly deserving. And not, one feels…

Bonfire of Schools

It has been a fearsome prologue to the prime ministerial grandstanding on 14 August, incidentally Pakistan’s Independence Day. The extremist…