Yasser Latif Hamdani

3 weeks ago | thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani

Pakistanis often argue that, unlike India, Pakistan has never elected someone like Modi. Let us consider this coolly, calmly, and honestly, now that the war is over. Is Modi really worse than those who rule us? Under Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist government, Muslims are still free to practice, profess, and propagate their faith openly and without hindrance in all of India. Modi has not been going around forcing anyone to sign affidavits undertaking not to carry out Qurbani or pray Eid namaz.

Mar 12, 2025 | thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani

Indian historian Anil Seal, widely hailed as the founder of the Cambridge School of Indian history, recently stated what is now an obvious but deeply inconvenient fact of history: partition of India was the doing of the Congress high command and not Jinnah. From Maulana Azad to H M Seervai, all astute observers of the political events of the closing decade of the British Raj have affirmed this fact and there is very little to argue against it.

Nov 1, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani

Critics of the idea of Pakistan, and in particular the Two-Nation Theory, say that the All India Muslim League postulated that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together. Unfortunately, this faux narrative has also become part of the official ideology of Pakistan. It is therefore important to revisit the primary source documents to see whether the Muslim League or its standard bearers actually said that Hindus and Muslims could not coexist.

Oct 18, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani

Read the first part of 'Qazi Faez Isa And Islam' here. When Qazi Faez Isa became the Chief Justice of Pakistan, I wrote a piece here in which I stated the following: “Justice Isa is a sincerely religious man, and that shows in his judicial pronouncements and obiter dicta, which are often peppered with religious wisdom. He is not a reactionary by any means.

Oct 16, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani

A few days ago the chief of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, posted on the social media site 'X' (formerly known as Twitter) that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had spoken of a Federal Court that would be separate from the Supreme Court. Bilawal's reference was to lend credence to the under-deliberation legislation which would amend the Constitution to create a Federal Constitutional Court.