As in the past, so today in a complex garb: Pakistan’s judiciary is a menace to democracy
Results of recent Indian elections have laid bare Hindutva’s weaknesses masked by GDP growth
All attempts to make Afghanistan our backyard and appease Afghanistan have failed
Pakistanis demand cheap and plentiful electricity – everywhere all at once – and it is nowhere in sight
Gambits that compromised Pakistan’s sovereignty came thick and fast during the 2018-22 government
One also cannot pick and choose where election was fair if election was fair in one province for one particular party, it was free everywhere
Nawaz Sharif’s re-redux. x/MurtazaViewsNawaz Sharif is the proverbial Lazarus of Pakistani politics. He has survived it all: dismissal of...
Pakistan in 2022 became the canary in the mine of climate change. The flood that ravaged one-third of the country this year came from the sky, not...
Behold the wreckage. China irritated. Saudi Arabia annoyed. US aggravated. EU infuriated. India euphoric. Muslim countries indifferent. IMF...
The writer is a member of the National Assembly. These are his personal views.A reinvented wheel with spokes of jargon, cliche, and complacency was...
The bulldozing of legislation facilitating Indian spy-terrorist Kulbhushan Jhadav in the joint session of parliament was the latest evidence to...
0Not a single electronic voting machine was used in the general election in Germany this week. Germany is not alone. Netherlands, Ireland, Italy,...
Appeasement of India, paralysis, vacillation, attack on diplomats, and loudspeaker diplomacy – all this and more has characterised the Imran Khan ...
It is not unusual for retired civil servants to reflect on the past. In a recent interview to an Indian journalist, however, former diplomat Abdul...
Declan Walsh’s ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan’ augments a veritable genre – books on our embattled homeland by anglophone Western journalists....
Set in the court of English Tudor King Henry VIII in the years 1527-40 and dissecting the rise and fall of the royal advisor Thomas Cromwell,...
Four-fifths of all Indians who are Hindu brushed aside economic woes in 2019 and voted overwhelmingly for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party ....
Life imitates art rarely, but in the land of the pure it does so tragi-comically. The Great Election Heist 2018 has brought the eponymous novel by...