Links to  articles in the Pakistani press by columnist Dr. Saleem H. Ali

Please note that I stopped writing for Pakistan's Daily Times in October 2009 and now write a regular column for
Pakistan's Express Tribune (published in partnership with the International Herald Tribune).

Links to Articles for Express Tribune

Archives of articles for Daily Times are linked below

  • The Quest for Happiness -- October 24, 2009
  • Cycle of Development -- October 10, 2009
  • Oasis of Learning -- September 26, 2009
  • Vegetal Impulse -- September 12, 2009
  • Fat Lands -- August 29, 2009
  • Soliloguy for Salt -- August 15, 2009
  • Provocation without Persuasion, August 1, 2009
  • lsamic Identity in America -- July 19, 2009
  • Hydropolitcs in South Asia -- July 3, 2009
  • The Kingdom in Pakistan, June 20, 2009
  • Bridging the Gulf, June 6, 2009
  • Redeeming Pakistan's Madrassas, May 25, 2009
  • Defeating Despair with Art, May 9, 2009
  • Pirates and Piety, April 25, 2009
  • Treataing Pakistan's Cancer, April 11, 2009  (Also posted on the Doha Forum)
  • Beyond Doom and Gloom in Pakistan, March 27, 2009
  • Reinventing the Islamic Republic, March 14, 2009
  • Trumping Rights, February 28, 2009
  • Lessons from Bengal, February 14, 2009
  • Advertising Prosperity, January 31, 2009
  • Ecological Borders, Janaury 17, 2009
  • Mysterious Mist, January 3, 2009
  • The Xenophobes, December 20, 2008
  • The Anatomy of Hatred, December 6, 2008
  • Lessons from King and Gandhi, November 22, 2008
  • Power of Connections, November 8, 2008
  • Humanizing China-Pakistan Relations, October 25, 2008
  • Greening Pakistani Politics, October 11, 2008
  • Time to Heal, September 27, 2008
  • Alaskan Anxiety, September 12, 2008
  • A City of Hope, August 30, 2008
  • The Ecology of Sex, August 16, 2008
  • Fulbright Frontline, August 2, 2008
  • Bridging an Ancient Sea, July 19, 2008
  • The Age of Green Dilemmas, July 5, 2008
  • The Fundamentalist Quest -- June 21, 2008
  • Obama's Elusive Race -- June, 7, 2008
  • Eco-politics in South Asia -- May 24, 2008
  • Cyclone Nargis -- May 10, 2008
  • Asian Dynamics at the World Bank -- April 26, 2008
  • The Nuclear Nemesis -- April 12, 2008
  • A Noble Choice -- Adoption in Islam, March 29, 2008
  • Pricing Fear, March 15, 2008
  • Hopes for Bilawal, March 1, 2008
  • Wealth and Extremism, February 2, 2008
  • Indonesia's Green Madrassas, January 19, 2008
  • Benazir and the Islamists, January 5, 2008
  • Balancing Act, December  24, 2007
  • Literary Legacies, December 7, 2007
  • Southern Exposure, November 24, 2007
  • A Pakistani in Lebanon, November 10, 2007
  • Unravelling the Elite, October 27, 2007
  • The Plastics Plague, October 13, 2007
  • Four Votes of Shame, September 29, 2007
  • Contrasts of Justice, September 15, 2007
  • Greening our Cities, September 1, 2007
  • Respecting our Minorities, August 18, 2007
  • Dealing with Drugs, August 4, 2007
  • Frontier of Fear, July 21, 2007
  • The Islamic "Errorists", July 7, 2007
  • Emulating Korea?, June 23 2007
  • Educating for Peace, June 9, 2007
  • Uncritical Thinking, May 26, 2007
  • Degrees of Fortune, May 12, 2007
  • Demography of extremism, April 28, 2007
  • The Servant Syndrome, April 14, 2007
  • Colonial Confluence, March 31, 2007
  • The Land of No Army, March  17, 2007
  • Obama's Muslim Connection, February 10, 2007
  • The Canadian Cauldron, January 27, 2007
  • Diamonds of consequence, January, 13, 2007
  • The Promise of Philanthropy -- December 30, 2006
  • Turning Pages at the United Nations -- December 16, 2006
  • Energizing Pakistan --  December 2, 2006
  • The Global Artist -- November 18, 2006
  • Tribal Targets --  November 4, 2006
  • The Nobel and Muslims --  October 22, 2006
  • Warriors of Peace --  October 7, 2006
  • Analogical Warfare -- September 23, 2006
  • A Taliban at Yale -- September 9, 2006
  • A Tale of Cricket and Terror --  August 26, 2006
  • Curing the Resource Curse --  August 12, 2006
  • Greening with Gorbachev --  August 1, 2006
  • Inspired by Insulin --  July 15, 2006
  • The Argumentative Pakistani --  July 1, 2006
  • Sex and Sensibility -- June 17, 2006
  • Bollywood Khans, Islam and the Environment --  June 3, 2006
  • Salvaging Islam in Sudan --  May 20, 2006
  • The Irony of Iberian Islam --  April 1, 2006
  • Shed no Nuclear Tears --  March 11, 2006
  • Cartooning Islam Across the Atlantic --  February 13, 2006
  • Ecstasy and Agony in the Emirates -- January 28, 2006
  • Moderation Faith and Science --  December 29, 2005
  • Putting Alcohol in Its Place -- December 16, 2005
  • A Maulvi that Mattered --  November 14, 2005
  • Disputes and Disasters -- October 31, 2005
  • Dealing with Denial -- October 8, 2005
  • The Persistence and Peril of Memory August, 2005
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