The writer is resident editor of The News in Peshawar. He can be reached at rahimyusufzai@yahoo.com
The government efforts to lure the Baloch nationalists back home and to encourage them to surrender are being viewed with some scepticism
President Ghani’s recent outburst against Pakistan has broken the unannounced agreement between the governments of the two neighbouring countries...
As the Rangers’ operation in Karachi is unlikely to stop even though it may be slowed down, the MQM doesn’t have many options if its gamble to...
After Mulla Omar, the Taliban are experiencing differences like never before
The announcement of Mulla Omar’s death signals the end of an era as the founder of the 21-year old movement is no more and a new man, albeit...
A Taliban movement without an accessible Mulla Omar and an al-Qaeda minus Bin Laden stand in sharp contrast with an Islamic State that has grown in...
The peace talks held in the hills of Pakistan recently enabled the first real face-to-face negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban
The political situation in the country is changing fast, with one party’s losses turning into another’s gains
Questions are being asked whether the Taliban are serious in joining the peace process or adamant to continue the fight
One year on, a look at the Zarb-e-Azb operation undertaken by the Pakistani military against the militants in North Waziristan
