What is India spending it’s massive defense budget on?
Daniel Darling | The Indian government has unveiled its budget estimates for the coming fiscal year, with defense once again in line for a 10...
While Indians & Bangladeshis replace Pakistani workers in Gulf countries government of Pakistan sleeps!
By Naveed Ahmad| DOHA: Pakistan is finally receiving blowback from slowing growth in the Gulf economies. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) last week announced...
Will ‘Raadul-Fasaad’ complete the unfinished agenda of Raheel Sharif in Punjab?
Ikram Sehgal| Unfinished agendas are finally being addressed. Chairing a high-level security meeting in Lahore on Wednesday attended by all the Corps Commanders in the...
Charsadda Court Attack: Whose “failure” & whose “success”?
Khalid Aziz | One wonders as to how Pakistani elected and selected leaders could claim “success” in an incident, which took seven innocent lives as...
Can ISIS be stopped from expanding into Asia?
Naveed Ahmed | Quietly but surely, the Islamic State group (IS, formerly known as ISIS) is benefitting from the failures of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Roughly...
Justice delayed is Justice denied: Panama Case nearing the end?
As hearings ended today on the Panama case regarding the Prime minister and his children, the Supreme Court announced said it had reserved verdict....
Where is the Pakistani government and what exactly is it doing if anything?
Dr Zafar Jaspal| The bloody terror attacks in Awaran, Quetta, Mohmand, Lahore, Peshawar and Sehwan during the last week and now again Lahore have traumatized the...
Pakistan into 70th Year: Living dangerously, surviving & moving ahead despite all odds..!
Adil Najam | Pakistan will turn 70 on August 14, 2017. It has been a tumultuous journey. Exciting. Adventurous. Unpredictable. Sometimes uplifting. Often heartbreaking. And,...
Of Men & Women: He does not love you if he does not respect you…!
Shiffa Yousafzai | Its not easy to be a woman. I was again reminded of this, when I suddenly met Mahrukh. She was a year...
Pakistan Army begins: ‘Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad’ all across Pakistan
News Analysis Pakistan Army on Wednesday initiated: 'Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad' across the country, Inter-Services Public Relations, the army's media wing, said in a statement. Pak Army launches...
Will Pakistanis & Afghans be able to see through the Indian Great Game?
Imtiaz Gul The unilateral border closure by Pakistan on February 15 once again exposed the current extremely brittle and acrimonious nature of its current relations...
1970 Election: The Last Credible Vote in Pakistan’s History?
We, the students of sixties and seventies, not only toppled the impregnable dictatorship of Ayub Khan we also played a pivotal role in holding...