The sources say the inquiry commission will submit its report in 60 days
Nobody can deny that Pakistan is rich in resources – but very poor in timely and efficient management. And deep-seated corruption is one of the...
One should reconcile with the fact that only change is permanent in the world. The defeat of the ruling party in recent LG polls in some tehsils of...
The economic team of the PTI seems to be engaged in chest-thumping after getting the nod from the IMF for $1 billion to steer the country’s...
There is no doubt that a system of robust and impartial accountability is the cornerstone of liberal democracy; the process of checks and balances...
Pakistan's protracted economic reliance on the US and some international financial institutions has seemingly deprived our geo-economically...
Last Sunday, the Trump administration threateningly said that it was deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force...
In parliamentary democracy, elections are held to continue the democratic process from one government to another without an inordinate...
It has been one of the most difficult tasks for almost all successive governments in Pakistan to effectively manage relations with the US. Even...
When the US had lifted sanctions on Iran as a result of the Iran nuclear deal of 2015, the Rouhani-led government in Tehran optimistically expedited...
Before the May 12 deadline, President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from the multilateral Iran nuclear deal, with the objective to find a...
When US President Donald Trump announced his disruptive policy to shift the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the divided Muslim world...
As a non-traditional security threat, climate change has continued to produce daunting challenges for Pakistan. The pressing issue of global warming...
As a sovereign state, Pakistan cannot sustain itself politically and militarily without long-term economic stability. Despite having a significant...
Henry Kissinger once remarked that: “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”. Though most American political and...
Since Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot change their geographical locations, it is in their long-term economic and security interests to bury their...
Though quality education is the most powerful weapon for change, successive governments in Pakistan have displayed a reluctance to equip the people...
The Indo-Japanese relationship is rapidly gathering impetus, taking shape faster than any of New Delhi’s current strategic partnerships in...
Pakistan has lacked a pragmatic and well-articulated foreign policy since 2008. What is more worrying is that the PML-N led incumbent democratic...
Under its recently-announced Afghan policy, the Trump administration has decided to deploy some 4,000 additional troops in Afghanistan to assist the...
US President Trump seems to have decided to pressurise Pakistan into doing ‘more’ against certain terrorist and militant groups that are...
Since the contemporary international system is largely anarchic, it is not astonishing to watch two oppressive and ultra-right wing governments...
In 1945, the US State Department observed that: “the resources of the Middle East are a stupendous source of strategic power and one of the...
The declining US influence in the Middle East has prompted the Trump administration to militarily intervene in the festering Syrian civil war. After...
The recent Russian diplomatic overtures towards Afghan peace and its secret rapprochement with the Taliban show that Russia wants to play a new...
Militants disguised as medics stormed the Sardar Daud Khan Hospital in Kabul on March 8, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens. Through its...
The recent spike in deadly terrorist attacks has made it patently clear that terrorists and militants have not yet been defeated. Operation...
Mutual mistrust, mudslinging and divergent regional objectives have hampered India and Pakistan from improving the strained bilateral relations....
NAB was widely applauded when it had seized bags of money, bonds and foreign currency worth over Rs730 million from former finance secretary Mushtaq...
Journalism is one of the riskiest professions to choose in this anarchic and increasingly insecure world. Since journalists consider themselves...
Pak-Afghan relations have been marred by mutual mistrust, acrimony and blame game. Under the visible tentacles of a regional power, last month...
The right-wing government of India is bent on accusing Pakistan of terrorism and militancy. After facing diplomatic failure in its smear campaign...
After considering the long-term feasibility and effectiveness of the CPEC, Iran has displayed its inclination to join the grand economic corridor....
Like other terrorist and militant attacks, the incumbent government has largely forgotten the recent deadly attack on the lawyer community in...
A thorough analysis of Pakistan’s chequered past makes it abundantly clear that the country has spent much of its history in political...
According to Global Trends 2030, compiled by the National Intelligence Council, the US will lose its superpower status by 2030. A recent Pew...
Despite spending billions of dollars, lasting and meaningful peace is still a distant dream in war-torn Afghanistan. By capitalising on...
With its phenomenal battlefield successes in the Middle East, Daesh has attracted an abundant supply of jihadi fighters inside Afghanistan, thus...
Abdul Sattar Edhi was Pakistan’s greatest philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian. Indubitably, he was the second most...
In simple terms, the budget is the summary of all financial expenditures of a government in a fiscal year. In developed countries, the...
The recent incident of murder of a 16-year-old girl, on the orders given by a jirga, reflect the slow drift of our society towards the Dark Ages....
In the discipline of international relations , good governance and efficient leadership are regarded very significant intangible sources of national...
According to the renowned structural realist, John J Mearsheimer, the Chinese economic and military rise in the 21st century would not be peaceful;...
The Organization of Muslim Cooperation has so far miserably failed to liberate the long-persecuted Palestinians from the yoke of imperial Israel....
The recent suicide committed by a teenage girl from Balochistan’s Killa Saifullah district reflects the inherent, yet neglected, issues...
After the historic Iran P5+1 nuclear deal, America has a long list of political, economic, ideological and military objectives to attain. In this...
Once again terrorists shed innocent blood in an educational institution of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Four young terrorists wielding AK-47s stormed the...
According to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, Pakistan is a highly water- stressed country and is highly likely to face an acute water...
When National Party leader Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was nominated as Balochistan’s chief minister for two and half years after the May 2013...
