Abdul Latif Afridi got killed for no fault of his in a tribal feud- such a kind of death a progressive and humane being least deserved.His fame was...
Abdul Latif Afridi got killed for no fault of his in a tribal feud- such a kind of death a progressive and humane being least deserved.His fame was...
The system installed in 2018 is now falling apart due to its inherent contradictions, with its embarrassed architects choosing to take refuge behind...
IAs per claims, the National Security Policy has finally been formulated for the first time in 74 years – without, however, taking parliament...
Within weeks of taking over the Ministry of Finance, Shaukat Tarin has remarkably created a ‘feel-good’ sense about an otherwise low-growth and...
LAHORE: The man who showed the path for struggle for peoples’ rights and consistently enriched progressive ideals during worst of circumstances...
He fought for too long against his cancer without losing his unflinching faith in life and a system that he detested and continued to fight tooth...
“I belong to a vanishing tribe and I think I will leave no successors”, wrote ZIM the last surviving editor of the bygone era. And how true was...
"I belong to a vanishing tribe and I think I will leave no successors", wrote ZIM the last surviving editor of the bygone era. And how true was...
“The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that educator...
So far, most parties in the All Parties Conference seem to be not standing firm on even the three political demands of its four-point charter, due...
Despite the Kashmir situation, which led to widespread outrage against the brutal repression of the Kashmiris by the Indian armed forces, and the...
Getting a public snub over using the religious card that everybody in Pakistan’s history has been so used to, Maulana Fazl is now focusing on...
Both the prime ministers of Pakistan and India were received with great jubilation on their return home from their weeklong visits to the US and...
The Hindu nationalists have finally struck down whatever was left of the fig leaf of “Special Status” of Indian-held Kashmir while making it a...
Yet another historic turn is about to take place in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban are set to declare their victory in 18 years of war as the US is...
Lamenting the US role as policeman in Afghanistan for 19 years, the US President desperately sought Pakistan’s help “to extricate ourselves”...
Responding to the enormity of crises faced by state and society, leading civil society activists and mainstream and left-oriented activists and...
With the ongoing ‘accountability’, the Imran Khan government has also unleashed the tyranny of the IMF’s tougher conditions, breaking the back...
Amid the rising cost of living and continuing turmoil in the financial market, the opposition seems to be fastening its seatbelts in anticipation of...
News AnalysisPrime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing his victory rally, has boasted that “no party could dare talk of secularism” after its...
There has been a stunning reversal of the promise of ‘change’ into a nightmare with the free fall of the rupee and the stock market. The regime...
Never before had we seen such an exceptional send off to prison by party enthusiasts than the way former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sent this...
At last, after much prolonged resistance, Jaish-e-Mohammed Chief Masood Azhar is included in the international terrorist list after the Chinese...
Regardless of the opposition’s unjustified screaming over what they had tried to do and failed, Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke the truth about...
The transition from a populist crusader to a pragmatic mundane routine job ends up exposing the real face of a rightwing regime tuned to the...
To the embarrassment of the nation’s intelligence, we see that Prime Minister Imran Khan, Finance Minister Asad Umar and batteries of trolls on...
It’s a bloody tsunami of stagflation – a lethal combination of hyperinflation and economic stagnation. The prospects of economic revival are...
Bilawal Bhutto, otherwise seen as hawkish on India, seems to have attracted the accusation of subscribing to the ‘Indian narrative’ because of...
And we are back from the brink after an unprecedented clash and counter-clash in the air and on the borders. After the decision to release a...
After a round of saber-rattling, Prime Minister Imran Khan moved swiftly to preempt escalation by announcing the release of captured Indian pilot...
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s royal visit showered immense benevolence on Pakistan as Iran and India flayed Islamabad over...
We now have an elaborate bureaucratic setup as ‘champions of change’ in Punjab, as provincial autonomy comes under increasing attack. The...
Although there is prima facie ground for suo-motu intervention by the superior judiciary in the Sahiwal extrajudicial killing, Pakistan’s new...
Pakistan has intensified its pressure on the Taliban to talk to the Afghan government. There were also reports that a senior Afghan Taliban leader...
Federalism is again under attack with a persistent campaign against the 18th Amendment or via irresponsible talk about the imposition of...
Regardless of the merits of the cases against the leaders of the opposition or whether there is ‘selective accountability’ going on in the...
Like ‘missing persons’, many human, civil, political and social rights too remain missing in our hybrid democracy. Despite the ratification of...
An official front page ad, bearing the solitary caption “We’ve been busy”, asked bewildered readers to “turn the page for Naya Pakistan”....
It is obvious now how a newly rediscovered theory of hybrid and 4th generation warfare is helping evolve a hybrid democracy and media and civil...
The entire focus right now, and self-serving comparisons and polemical reviews, is on fiscal and balance of payments issues as people do not matter...
Pakistan’s relationship with China is graduating from a purely military strategic phase to much broader geo-economic spheres
Various disparate sections of the wider opposition are weighing their options to launch an offensive against what they dub as a “selected prime...
The stock market again nosedived by 750 points and the rupee continued to shed its already depleting exchange value amid dwindling electoral support...
Halfway through its honeymoon period, the Imran Khan government continues to flounder on its promises while compensating its incompetence with ever...
What has so abruptly reversed the Modi government’s consent to a meeting sans the resumption of the dialogue process between the Indian and...
Finance Minister Asad Umar, in his first supplementary budget, reversed some of the rare progressive measures taken in the last PML-N budget, such...
‘Change’ is indeed here: Imran Khan is now the country’s prime minister, with a popular base and institutional support. There is no going back...
In a hung parliament, our hero Imran Khan is going to face a grand alliance of a formidable opposition. With a lead of almost four million votes...
There is much mystery around today’s general elections, mostly due to known and unknown variants that may influence the outcome of what is being...
