Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah speaking at the Constitutional Assembly. — The News/FileIndependence Day-August 14-is not merely a celebration of...
Independence Day-August 14-is not merely a celebration of freedom for the Muslims of India; it marks liberation from British colonial rule and...

This historic phenomenon can be better understood in its politico-historical context

While Quaid led movement for independent homeland for Muslims, it was also struggle against Hindu hegemony, British colonial mindset
The independence of Pakistan is marked by many milestones, the 23rd March being a prominent one. It was this day that actually gave the Muslims of...
Daily Jang emerged as an Urdu weekly in pre-Partition India, getting its name from the war environment, in what was a charged political climate....
Political movements are best understood by studying the leaders who play a central role in unifying a multitude of masses for a single cause....
Letter writing has been as common in the past as the use of computers today. Letters of public figures and literati are still seen as major literary...
This Independence Day sees the region in greater turmoil, as the situation in the west deteriorates toward civil war, and Kashmir-related friction...
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has generally been seen as a national leader of high stature, a sharp politician, a constitutionalist, and a legal...
Independence Day is a time for introspection, and to deliberate on the country’s past, present and future. This Independence Day has more to it;...
The Supreme Court’s decision on the Panama Papers brought in its wake the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and much more. The country not only...
The terrorist wave of the 21st century, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has, so to say, ‘institutionalised’ the phenomenon of terrorism....
Finally, the Court spoke and gave its decision on the much publicised Panama leaks case. Needless to say, the decision was eagerly awaited by the...
Pakistan’s war on terror has been traumatic and challenging. That Pakistan was pressurised to fight this war is also passé. For some...
The day that no one except one person believed was possible has finally come – Donald J Trump will take over as the new American president....
American presidential elections are perhaps the only ones that are followed all over the world, as the outcome affects the world as well. But this...
To say that India-Pak relations have historically been adversarial is now a cliché. Conflict, standoff, and confrontation are buzzwords in...
The MQM has dominated Sindh’s urban politics for quite some time. It built a reputation on many counts – its ethnic politics, its...
The current state of Pakistan’s foreign relations could at best be termed dismal, a case in point being the state of its relations with its...