Dr Farooq Adil

India’s real plan
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- May 3, 2025
IS there a connection between the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s visit to Turkeyia and India’s aggressive, war-like actions against Pakistan? If we search for the…

Caught in the Middle
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- April 23, 2025
ONCE again, Pakistan finds itself walking a tightrope. Surrounded by powerful neighbours, pulled by historical alliances, and burdened by internal scars, the country stands at…

Thinker & architect of institutions
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- April 17, 2025
THE saying “Company of the great makes one great” comes vividly to life in the personality of Professor Khurshid Ahmad. His ancestral roots traced back…

A new political phase
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- April 10, 2025
IN a significant shift, electricity prices dropped sharply, sparking a political debate—not over the benefit, but over who deserves credit. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who…

Iqbal’s Payam-e-Mashriq: A timeless vision
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- April 3, 2025
IN 2017-18, during Pakistan Day celebrations at the President House, a debate arose about what should follow the recitation of the Holy Quran. I argued…

Few beautiful memories blessed by books
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- March 27, 2025
IT must have been around eight or a quarter past eight in the morning when a polite knock at the door disturbed my peaceful slumber.…

From Akif to Iqbal
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- March 20, 2025
THE tragedy of the Jafar Express had left us devastated when Dr.Khalil Toker’s smile appeared. Though currently in Pakistan, Dr. Toker is essentially a walking,…

Pak economic recovery & diplomatic resurgence
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- March 13, 2025
ISMAIL Merathi came to mind. He is considered a children’s Urdu poet, but his descriptions of natural phenomena are so vivid that one cannot help…

A lesson from Akora Khattak
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- March 6, 2025
THE fire that was ignited around us forty or fifty years ago has now reached Darul Uloom Haqqania, and Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani, drenched in blood,…

Selling an author
- By Dr Farooq Adil
- February 27, 2025
BUY a book, or the author will be sold.” Brigadier Saulat Raza(Rtd) made this remark with a wry smile, which instantly reminded me of a…