What is the significance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain at Karbala almost 1400 years ago? What is the relevance in the present times of the...
Deep in trouble at home on the political and economic front while suffering new hits on the security question, Pakistan has managed to remain...
It was no doubt a special Corps Commanders Conference – being held soon after the horrifying and unprecedented arson and vandalism acts across...
In the last one week, while Pakistan has been steeped in political chaos and confronted with a continuing economic crisis, with an eye on regional...
Pakistan’s 23rd prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has appointed Pakistan’s 17th army chief, Lt-Gen Asim Munir. In Pakistan’s power politics,...
Childhood days during Ashura were spent intensely mourning the heart-wrenching devastation of the Prophet’s grandson and his family of...
All is not alright with the explanations given out by Islamabad and Beijing
New political history will be written today in Pakistan. Barring some miraculous developments, all is set to see the first-ever removal via a vote...
The political climate in Pakistan is very stormy – a season of daily truths and untruths, fanciful facts and conspiracies. New political stories...
Districts in Afghanistan and falling like ninepins. The Afghan Taliban has already taken control of 18 out of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces – and...
What Pakistan does occasionally, it ought to do every time – when dealing with foreign policy matters, it must work out the ‘math’ of an...
It is no surprise that Pakistan's two top security officials are in the US to meet with their counterparts to discuss future cooperation in...
Chaotic incompetence no country can afford. Much less a country like our own which is confronted with multiple challenges within and from the...
With US and Nato troops having all but departed from Afghanistan after 20 years of political and military failure, Afghanistan’s present situation...
The writer is a senior journalist.Terrorism is again the top talk-trend. On July 5, the Prime Minister Imran Khan said there was no doubt of...
That Pakistan's politics is locked into a negative dynamic of anger, aggression and allegation is now amply evident. While contestation and...
Let there be no mistake. Pakistan is now confronted with the clear and present danger of India’s settler colonialism in the Kashmiri homeland....
Yet again, questions are raised of an early election and of the PTI’s uncertain future. While Prime Minister Imran Khan continues to face issues...
Past the misplaced hype regarding what was imminently achievable through the Pakistan-India backchannel, important developments have taken place...
More recently, background briefings by Pakistani officials have confirmed that the Pakistan-India backchannel communication is ongoing – between...
Clearly the past few days' developments on the streets in some parts of Pakistan in an unprecedented way demonstrated the ability of agitating...
This government’s rape law mirrors the government’s concern to battle the heinous crime of rape. However, the prime minister’s recent...
Indian and Pakistani national flags flutter as Indian Border Security Force personnel and Pakistani Rangers allow a Pakistani truck to cross over...
The writer is a senior journalist.The two-year break in Pakistan-India relations has come to an end. The two nuclear states have re-engaged with...
The PDM’s ‘best hour’ is over. Asif Ali Zardari’s clarion call to Nawaz Sharif is loud and clear: return home to fight the political battle...
The expected did happen on Friday, October 16. People from the PML-N’s stronghold of Gujranwala and other areas along the GT Road belt responded...
A single tweet has yet again exposed the existing faultlines in Pakistan’s power structure. The developments that have followed suggest that...
Do politicians ever learn? Imagine the long line of near genocides that have taken place in the 20th century in the name of the ‘other’....
If there is one core problem writ large within our context it would be the exercise of unaccountable authority by Pakistan’s ruling elite....
Several days past the disappearance of five bloggers – one of whom is said to be a polio patient – there is no confirmed news about...
The reports about Pakistan’s former army chief general Raheel Sharif joining the 39-member Saudi coalition were finally confirmed by...
In an unusual development – and 37 years after the 1979 military invasion of Afghanistan – the Russian special envoy to Afghanistan...
As the new year is set to begin, here are a few of the many questions that we struggle with as we look towards Pakistan’s future at home: Is...
What do Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s seminal report on the Quetta carnage, the interior minister’s ‘combative’ presser, the...
News of Donald Trump’s victory prompted hundreds of boisterous young Americans to gather outside the White House. But they were there not to...
The crisis at the Torkham border, which tragically turned bloody, has now settled down. More importantly, a comprehensive, though little known,...
There can only be one reaction to the diabolical act of the Orlando killer – unqualified condemnation and sheer disgust. The Orlando killings...
The news is that the prime minister, recuperating from his surgery, will not be back in the country for perhaps another month. May he recover soon....
Input will dictate output – almost always. So what is the input that is going into our national security and foreign policymaking that has...
The death of Mullah Mansour once again exposes the limits of control and influence that nations have over situations that were first messed up in...
Were it not have been about the serious issue of corruption, we would have doubled up with laughter – as the prime minister’s men and...
Having called each other rats, sworn to rip apart stomachs to extract corruption money including loan write-offs, implied preference for selective...
So the Afghan president is signalling his lack of confidence in the much talked about Quadrilateral dialogue with Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and...
Both are here, and both must stay: the government and the PanamaLeaks issue. At this point, the exit of neither is going to help us uncover the...
The political storms created by the Panama Papers in Pakistan will unlikely settle down without forcing some change in the current political setup....
Collect enough people, march on to the capital, hurl vile abuses and horrendous threats, present your demands and threaten peoples’ lives, and...
Sometimes one must follow the heart. So despite being told it was pointless to go to Eden Gardens only to witness us lose to India, I set...
So what is the story behind the ‘sudden’ arrival in Karachi of two former MQM leaders who were very close to Altaf Hussain and were...
