Eight-year-old Zainab’s rape and murder has drawn intense outrage on the streets of Kasur and on social media this week. It is the twelfth case of...
Rex Tillerson’s visit to Pakistan and Islamabad’s response are more of the same and will remain so as long as their divergent national...
On Saturday, US National Security Adviser Gen McMaster said in a radio interview that President Trump wants Pakistan to change its...
On May 24, two Chinese language teachers were kidnapped from the supposedly secure zone in Quetta. The militant Islamic State group later claimed...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a centrist, was re-elected last Saturday , to a second term by winning 57 percent of the votes in an election that...
So what did Donald Trump aim to accomplish by launching 59 cruise missiles on a single Syrian airbase late last week? His supporters have been...
The last 37 years have been a long and convoluted journey. They have taken us from the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, through the proxy warfare in...
In 2016, some cherished Pakistani dreams remained unfulfilled, deferred or worse, went sour – dreams of moving towards genuine democracy;...
Donald Trump is all set to enter the White House as the 45th president of the United States. Alienation and economic anxiety largely deriving from...
Quetta painted red again...yet again...And so it goes on; the killing spree continues; our pain gradually turning into numbness and our tears...
Our media and politicians are waxing eloquent about how the Turkish people – the ‘awam’ – have saved and strengthened...
On Wednesday, the Islamabad Police registered a case against former chairman Senate Nayyer Hussain Bokhari for allegedly assaulting a police...
General Raheel Sharif’s recent call for across-the-board accountability to uproot corruption followed by the sacking of senior army officers...
It is all very well to talk about the civil-military divide in Pakistan. Yes, the divide is there. Yes, it has always been there. Yes, the army...
According to a news item, top leaders of religious parties, seminaries and scholars held a meeting at Mansoora in Lahore on March 15 and agreed to...
Roughly translated, the title means “You may look at me but only with love in your eyes”. This phrase – a favourite of rickshaw...
In the East Room of the White House last Tuesday, President Obama broke down in tears when, bypassing Congress, he publicly announced executive...
Around the time that Ashraf Ghani was describing Pakistan-Afghanistan ties as “not brotherly”, the Taliban forces were in the process of...
As things stand today, Pakistan’s political, security and social situations are defined by three Sharifs: Nawaz Sharif, Raheel Sharif and Ramzan...
A long, long time ago my 17-year-old sister died a sudden death. My mother survived her by nearly 36 years. During those three decades she never...
The Middle East imbroglio demonstrates the complexity of the post-9/11 world in which Obama’s foreign policy has managed to upset America’s...
France is mourning the death of 17 people after three terrorists attacked the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week and later...
Two news items caught my attention recently. One, an Argentinean court has ruled that an orangutan held in an Argentine zoo be freed and transferred...
