Adnan Rafiq

Adnan Rafiq

  • Securing Pakistan

    The 40th meeting of the National Security Committee concluded on Monday with a resolve to have zero tolerance for terrorism in Pakistan. It was...

  • Victory or calamity?

    The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan has important security implications for Pakistan. While much is being written on various aspects of...

  • Save the HEC

    The Higher Education Commission Ordinance 2021, promulgated by the government last month, has severely dented the pro-youth and pro-reforms...

  • The battle at home

    ‘The toughest of all battles lies at home’ – aptly says a Pashtun proverb. Unfortunately, the fleeting consensus achieved during the last two...

  • Critical care for Covid patients

    The struggle against Covid-19 in Pakistan has entered a new phase. The attention must now switch to ensuring how tailored containment measures and...

  • Protecting the labourers?

    Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the mainstream discourse in Pakistan has been flooded with concern and sympathy for the labour...

  • Coronavirus: the endgame

    Much is being written in the electronic, print and social media in Pakistan about the coronavirus pandemic, yet the federal government has failed to...

  • Stability and inclusiveness

    Pulitzer Prize winning historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote in the epilogue of his book, ‘Why Rome Fell?’, “A great civilization is not...

  • Embracing diversity?

    The inauguration of the Kartarpur Corridor and the government’s announcement of plans to restore 400 Hindu temples across the country has received...

  • The ‘Goldilocks zone’

    For the first time since the Pulwama crisis, two key Track-II dialogues involving Indian and Pakistani delegates are underway.As Pakistan and India...

  • NAP: the way forward

    A new wave of violence seems to be on the rise. In the last six months, the TTP-linked attack in Lahore, sectarian-motivated violence in Quetta and...