Why Imran Khan should NOT have become Prime Minister of Pakistan

Shahid Ahsan Baloch | Being a common man, what I can recall from my early adulthood years (in the nineties) was a Pakistan already broken...

Maryam Nawaz and her army of trolls

Daughter of Nawaz Sharif, referred to as the ‘Princess’ by friends and foes alike, Maryam Nawaz occupies the top seat in the cadre of...

Is it politics that makes us negative?

Huma Zafar | Driving to work, I observe people on the road and in traffic. There is usually a stern expression or a frown, most...

Prime Minister all set for trip to Beijing: CPEC is flagship project of OBOR

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is traveling to Beijing with a high-level delegation and chief ministers of the four provinces, to attend a two-day international...

Nawaz-Jindal meeting: Friendship, diplomacy, or something else?

Marriyum Aurangzeb, State Minister for Information has clarified newspaper reports earlier in the day that said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of...

The intelligence top brass warns the US of increasing “Afghan Trouble”

News Analysis | On Thursday, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was presented with a comprehensive Worldwide Threat Assessment Report. The Director of National...

A glimpse of the past: Was Pakistan ready to respond to India’s overt nuclearization?

Samson Simon Sharaf | When Narasimha Rao, the Indian National Congress (INC) Prime Minister, called for snap elections in 1996, it was time for Pakistan...

JIT summons PM, Captain Safdar’s asset details for scrutiny

The joint investigation team (JIT) charged with investigating the alleged financial wrongdoings of the Prime Minister by the Supreme Court verdict in the Panama...

Everything turns legit under the banner of ‘preserving democracy’

Ikram Sehgal | Such is the terror of possible retribution by those in governance that even a man of AD Khawaja’s conscience and inherent integrity...

Are the people ready for another long-march against dictatorship?

Dr. Farid A. Malik | Having lived through two movements (1977 and 2007) and getting ready for the third (2017), I thought it was a...

If Pakistan goes to the ICJ mala fide interests are at play

On May 8, India submitted an application to the International Court of Justice against Pakistan’s arrest of the Indian spy, Kulbhushan Jadhav. The ICJ...

What is the government up to with Ramazan bill & PTA: Protecting sanctity or breeding intolerance?

With Ramadan approaching in a few weeks’ time, Pakistanis are making the necessary preparations. The legislators are also at work to 'uphold the sanctity'...