Umer Farooq is a senior journalist based in Islamabad. He specializes in writing on politics, foreign policy and security issues.
While political parties do a lot of posturing against military courts before the media, they succumb to pressure when it comes to actually voting...
In the absence of an exclusive legal framework under which local or foreign NGOs operate, what is happening?
Secular and religious political parties stand on opposite sides of the fence on the judgment
There’s still a smokescreen on how the PTI government is going to change the existing local government system
The PTI government faces huge foreign policy challenges that are likely to bother the new government in the future
The appointment and subsequent ouster of Atif Mian from the economic advisory council exposes the government’s vulnerability to the pressure...
After the latest round of talks, Pakistani officials see the Indian decision to allow inspection of dams across the border as a forward movement
The PTI government faces the huge challenge of matching its words with deeds
With 139 first-timers, Shahbaz Sharif as leader of the opposition, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Akhtar Mengal making their debut entries, this...
All major political parties now in opposition are claiming their polling agents across the country were not allowed to take part in the counting...
