Zafar Bangash

The drums of war are once again getting louder in Washington. Led by the Zionist cabal and its neocon allies, American warmongers are itching for another war, this time against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Not […]

When people in a Muslim society are driven to commit suicide because of poverty and hopelessness, it should cause alarm. Life is sacred, and a sacred trust from Allah (swt), the Creator; that is why suicide is […]

Hardly a day passes by without Muslims being told to grow up and accept western standards of freedom of expression and thought. Some western commentators have gone so far as to claim that they have the […]

Pakistan turns 63 this month but it would be difficult to say a great deal positive about its style of governance or development in all these years. True, its birth was marred by great suffering and bloodshed, […]

For nearly 16 hours a day, power (electricity) is out in Pakistan. For those who can afford them, battery-operated units have been installed to produce enough electricity to light a few bulbs and run cooling fans […]

There is a plethora of institutions masquerading as global do-gooders. Some of them might even be doing some good work but that is incidental to the overall objectives for which they were created. Not one […]

Delivering democracy has become the all-purpose justification for every crime perpetrated by Western governments against other people. It is not only used to justify Western intervention in other countries’ in […]

Concepts are useful tools that aid our understanding. Children learn new concepts through association with things familiar; adults learn through experiment and experience. Just as children learn not to put their […]

Two laments are common among Muslims: lack of unity and negative projection of Muslims in the Western media. Most Muslims believe cooperation between Muslim rulers and governments constitutes unity. The desire […]

We are supposed to hate suicide bombers, those grotesque creatures hell-bent on killing innocent people because of their “demented ideology”. There is no shortage of experts delivering sermons from every […]

I must admit even a seasoned observer like myself had started to wonder whether there was some truth to the allegations of widespread anger against the Islamic system in Iran following last June’s pr […]

Most Americans have realized that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unwinnable, that their leaders lie to them regularly and most have also soured on Barack Obama’s promise of change, but they appear he […]

The theft of Iraq’s oil by the West has picked up speed. In typical colonial style, the great robbery is being facilitated by former officials of the Bush administration that had served in Iraq. These in […]

The October 18 terrorist attack by Jundullah in Pishin in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan revealed the criminal nature not only of the perpetrators but also their backers, the US, Britain, and […]

It should be clear even to the most diehard capitalists that the present world order is no longer tenable. Thanks to America’s two wars of aggression and the unbridled greed of Wall Street gangsters, the te […]

If George Bush is a confirmed Moron-in-Chief, US President Barack Obama is rapidly carving for himself the title of Hypocrite-in-Chief. This smooth-talking son of a Kenyan cattle-herder and a white American […]

Hollywood movies of the 1950s often depicted Africans as savages showing semi-clad men dancing around a fire while their “dinner” — a white explorer — was tied to a post before being barbequed. In the mo […]

Americans often express surprise at why people hate their country with such intensity when their government is doing so much to help others. Does the US not give more aid than anyone else to help desperately poor […]

Away from the glare of media publicity, a massive robbery is underway in what is referred to as Iraqi oil contracts. An oil consortium led by British Petroleum (BP) grabbed the first contract on June 30 to […]

Iran’s June 12 presidential elections in which the incumbent, President Mah-moud Ahmedinejad, retained his post by a wide margin over his nearest rival Mir Hussain Mousavi has provided the Muslim-hating West an […]