The author is a senior columnist and Secretary General Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s readiness to discuss terrorism before anything else gives him a lever to persuade India to return to the negotiating...
The only way the terrorists can be denied success is to avoid taking actions that can take Pakistan and India farther away from the path of amity...
Justice Saqib Nisar’s attempt to clean up the vast stables of a faltering state has revived the debate on the limits to judicial and legal...
With the NAB drive against certain politicians, Pakistan will rapidly move towards becoming a one-party state with all its inevitable consequences
So long as the people do not realise that the right to freedom of speech, opinion and expression and access to information are their fundamental...
No clear evidence is available to suggest any effort on part of the government to prevent the potential agitators from capturing strategic points on...
The impression that NAB’s independence, impartiality and efficiency are in question has been strengthened over the last 22 months
The way out is a clear division of labour between the political authority and the bureaucracy -- the former’s job is to decide what public...
The fallout of the Atif Mian episode shows that the matter has acquired greater and more ominous dimensions than the controversy over his nomination
Kuldip Nayar, the journalist who thought of himself as a citizen of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and lived a politically charged life
