Nasim Zehra
Nasim Zehra

  • November 15, 2025

    Where is Pakistan headed?

    A man carrying national flags walks through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar on August 13, 2023. —...

  • November 15, 2025

    Where is Pakistan headed?

    A man carrying national flags walks through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar on August 13, 2023. —...

  • November 06, 2025

    Hope emerges from Istanbul

    Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 25, 2025. — ReutersIn the incessantly...

  • November 06, 2025

    Hope emerges from Istanbul

    Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 25, 2025. — ReutersIn the incessantly...

  • October 31, 2025

    Defining moment

    The representational image shows UN peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo BMP armoured vehicle on patrol. — MONUSCO/FileThe...

  • October 26, 2025

    Afghan challenge

    Defence Minister Khawaja Asif shakes hands with his Afghan counterpart Mullah Yaqoob after reaching a ceasefire deal with the Taliban authorities in...

  • October 26, 2025

    Afghan challenge

    Both neighbours should find in their ties path to coexistence, not conflict

  • October 17, 2025

    The red line

    Taliban security personnel on a Soviet-era tank are followed by motorcyclists as they ride towards the border in the Spin Boldak district of...

  • October 17, 2025

    The red line

    Taliban security personnel on a Soviet-era tank are followed by motorcyclists as they ride towards the border in the Spin Boldak district of...

  • October 10, 2025

    A staggered prize – and justice for Gaza

    Smoke rises following explosions during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip.—ReutersThe 2025 Nobel...

  • October 10, 2025

    A staggered prize – and justice for Gaza

    Smoke rises following explosions during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip.—ReutersThe 2025 Nobel...

  • October 02, 2025

    A century of betrayal

    Palestinian boys wave their national flag as demonstrators clash with Israeli soldiers during a protest in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on...

  • October 02, 2025

    A century of betrayal

    Palestinian boys wave their national flag as demonstrators clash with Israeli soldiers during a protest in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on...

  • September 25, 2025

    Hard power rules again

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman share a moment after signing the landmark Strategic Mutual Defence...

  • September 25, 2025

    Hard power rules again

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman share a moment after signing the landmark Strategic Mutual Defence...

  • July 01, 2025

    What Israel and the US didn’t achieve

    The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like...

  • July 01, 2025

    What Israel and the US didn’t achieve

    The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like...

  • July 01, 2025

    What Israel and the US didn’t achieve

    The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like...

  • July 01, 2025

    What Israel and the US didn’t achieve

    The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like...

  • June 15, 2025

    The end game?

    Israel appears to have plunged into a conflict of undetermined duration, scale and complexity

  • April 25, 2025

    Delusion next door

    Delhi cannot buy peace in Indian-occupied Kashmir on back of violent and bloody policy of occupation and annexation

  • December 29, 2024

    Not a false start

    Rounding up and intimidating PTI supporters continues and controversial military courts have rapidly handed down dozens of convictions

  • August 14, 2024

    The roots of Pakistan

    Pre-British Hindustan was truly a kaleidoscope of multiple outlooks

  • July 29, 2023

    The ultimate sacrifice

    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...

  • May 25, 2023

    Neighbourhood issues

    Deep in trouble at home on the political and economic front while suffering new hits on the security question, Pakistan has managed to remain...

  • May 17, 2023

    Towards a consensus finally?

    It was no doubt a special Corps Commanders Conference – being held soon after the horrifying and unprecedented arson and vandalism acts across...

  • May 10, 2023

    Troubled Pakistan’s weighty messages

    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...

  • November 26, 2022

    A successful conclusion

    Pakistan’s 23rd prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has appointed Pakistan’s 17th army chief, Lt-Gen Asim Munir. In Pakistan’s power politics,...

  • August 08, 2022

    The story of Karbala

    Childhood days during Ashura were spent intensely mourning the heart-wrenching devastation of the Prophet’s grandson and his family of...

  • June 29, 2022

    An unfortunate error

    All is not alright with the explanations given out by Islamabad and Beijing

  • April 03, 2022

    Live to fight another day

    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...

  • March 29, 2022

    Not without evidence

    The political climate in Pakistan is very stormy – a season of daily truths and untruths, fanciful facts and conspiracies. New political stories...

  • August 15, 2021

    Taliban back – almost

    Districts in Afghanistan and falling like ninepins. The Afghan Taliban has already taken control of 18 out of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces – and...

  • August 08, 2021

    Getting the math right

    What Pakistan does occasionally, it ought to do every time – when dealing with foreign policy matters, it must work out the ‘math’ of an...

  • July 30, 2021

    Pakistan’s viable Afghan policy

    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...

  • July 20, 2021

    Strange delays

    Chaotic incompetence no country can afford. Much less a country like our own which is confronted with multiple challenges within and from the...

  • July 16, 2021

    The Afghan challenge

    With US and Nato troops having all but departed from Afghanistan after 20 years of political and military failure, Afghanistan’s present situation...

  • July 08, 2021

    Kashmir: is sincere rhetoric enough?

    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...

  • June 18, 2021

    Anatomy of the June 15 saga

    That Pakistan's politics is locked into a negative dynamic of anger, aggression and allegation is now amply evident. While contestation and...

  • June 13, 2021

    India’s settler colonialism

    Let there be no mistake. Pakistan is now confronted with the clear and present danger of India’s settler colonialism in the Kashmiri homeland....

  • May 21, 2021

    A storm in a teacup?

    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...

  • May 18, 2021

    Back on track

    Past the misplaced hype regarding what was imminently achievable through the Pakistan-India backchannel, important developments have taken place...

  • May 07, 2021

    An offer and a reckoning

    More recently, background briefings by Pakistani officials have confirmed that the Pakistan-India backchannel communication is ongoing – between...

  • April 16, 2021

    TLP and the business of state

    Clearly the past few days' developments on the streets in some parts of Pakistan in an unprecedented way demonstrated the ability of agitating...

  • April 08, 2021

    The PM on rape: the licence no one has

    This government’s rape law mirrors the government’s concern to battle the heinous crime of rape. However, the prime minister’s recent...

  • April 05, 2021

    Trade with India: The facts

    Indian and Pakistani national flags flutter as Indian Border Security Force personnel and Pakistani Rangers allow a Pakistani truck to cross over...

  • March 25, 2021

    Re-engaging India: the promise and the peril

    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...

  • March 18, 2021

    Beyond Zardari’s clarion call

    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...