News stories for Badar Alam

Herald Exclusive: Common ground

On parallels between Pakistani and Indian electoral politics.

Updated 10 Jun, 2014 03:03pm

A tribute to Musadiq Sanwal: The man who smiled through it all

His duel with his disease also became a reason for laughter rather than self-pity and sentimentalism.

Updated 17 Jan, 2014 06:10pm

Case dismissed

Institutions, like human beings, do not have roles set in stone. Both evolve over time. Both change in tune with the...

Updated 11 Dec, 2013 07:42pm

A presidential election beset by controversy

Disregarding all other opinions and letting religious reasons be the only ground for rescheduling the poll is dangerous.

Updated 29 Jul, 2013 07:53pm

Herald exclusive: Centre of controversy

The 18th Amendment has been passed, but its implementation in spirit remains to be seen.

Published 24 Jul, 2013 04:01pm

The rule of the self-righteous

The media and the men in robes are singling out the wayward by forcing them to show their lack of religious information and declare their real or imagined sins in public.

Published 04 Apr, 2013 11:57pm

Of doubts and suspicions

Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Tahirul Qadri.—Photo by Reuters Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s agitation, by his own...

Published 13 Jan, 2013 04:06pm

Badar Alam on what's next for PPP

When the next election comes, will the conviction be a factor in determining the success or failure of the PPP?

Published 26 Apr, 2012 10:10am

Patients camp outside SIUT for lack of accommodation

KARACHI, Feb 6: Zebunnisa gets no visitors at her ramshackle tent just across the street from the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi’s old city area. The 31-year-old kidney patient has been camping here for

Published 06 Feb, 2012 08:35pm