“The world order has never been so unstable as it is now.  No-one is safe, be it Western established democracies or autocratic regimes. One could never imagine the strikes in the heart of Paris, Brussels, London, Spain or the parliament of India in the era of cold war. It looks as if, with the fall of Berlin Wall and the disintegration of USSR the whole world ...

White guilt is understandable: but it should not stop us seeking Human Rights for all European colonisation killed over a hundred million people. Industrialization allowed pillaging on a scale never before imagined. The Slave Trade, The Sykes-Picot Agreement, the partition of India and Pakistan, and the tortured histories of colonised countries impact to this day the lives of countless millions ...

First, my profound thanks to THE PASHTUN TIMES and to Professor Khurshid Alam.  I believe that he and I would have several particular disagreements, while at the same time agreeing on the most important principles.  It would lead to lively and dynamic discussion in which we both are likely to learn–all to the betterment of our Pashtun brothers and sisters ...

Mainstreaming of FATA is inevitable and the plans for which it was kept as a buffer zone are no more practicable After a rigorous emphasis on mainstreaming FATA in national action plan followed by a consensus amongst the FATA parliamentarians on the integration of FATA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the change should have been made inevitable. The state apparently had no ...

The westerns are blamed for as big as Islamic State and as small as the traffic jam I read the article by Daniel Pipes with great interest and felt some silent realities has been given voice. Though, I beg to differ with some of his analysis. Let me tackle the first part first, the blame game of the by religious, ...

 Brussels is targeted twice by Islamic State and it is the fifth terrorist attack since May 2014 in Europe. In this March there were two terrorist’ attacks in Turkey too. But the recent attacks will not initiate any military action against Islamic State. It will create a wave against Bashar Al Assad who is blamed to push the refuges towards ...

Daniel Pipes, the great American scholar and expert on the Middle East, Islam, and more recently said in a Times of India interview that, “there’s a tendency in west Asia to blame western powers for whatever happens – be it as large as Islamic State or as small as a traffic jam.”  Having spent years in west Asia’s great cities ...

2016. Trump is rising. Right-wing parties loom across Europe. Free expression is under threat. So why is a tree-hugging, lefty, feminist media-lawyer-type like me concerned about the left‘s problem with Free Speech? Should a cisgendered, white, straight, male even be writing about this? Join me, friends, as I take you through what I think Political Correctness gets wrong, how it ...

Most of us are familiar with the poetry of Ghani Khan, arguably one of the most important and eminent Pashto poets of the twentieth century. While some are acquainted with his work as a sculptor and painter, his drawings moreover merit equal recognition, by way of offering a further glimpse into his raw talent and inherently creative mind. Although it ...

Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, also known by his pen name ‘Lewanae Falsafi’, was a modern Afghan-Pashtun poet and artist of the 20th century, and one of the best speakers of the Central Legislative Assembly of British-India in 1947. He was unfortunately less understood among the Afghan-Pashtuns and less known poet across the world just as Khushal Khan Khattak and Rehman ...