The author is a senior columnist and Secretary General Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
If the cutting short of a promising life, such as Mashal Khan’s, has any lesson to be remembered in 2018 and beyond, it is the urgency of...
As the clouds of authoritarianism are again gathering on Pakistan’s horizon, people will need to follow Benazir Bhutto’s spirit to save democracy
These are testing times. But stout-hearted, truthful and disciplined news providers will survive because the courage of the defenceless has no limits
The defence of everything done by dictators, as an immutable injunction of faith, will not bring credit to true Islamic scholars. Nor will it...
The greatest block on the way to normal, friendly and cooperative relations between India and Pakistan is the rise to ascendancy of religious...
Nawaz Sharif’s case is that political disputes should be decided at political forums and through political means only. This is something an...
The main reason for the state’s failure to effectively tackle the ED problem is that it has tried only to trace the disappeared and shirked the...
What happens over the next few months and how fair the next general election is going to be will determine not only the relevance of the electoral...
If there is any lesson for politicians from the recent happenings it is this: democracy demands more hard work and greater confidence in the wisdom...
Democracy will have better chances of flourishing in Pakistan if the wiser elites stopped sneering at people’s choice of their representatives or...
