India: Women win right to enter the sacred parts of temples and mosques
Throughout history, world religions have considered women as ritually unclean because of menstruation and the social beliefs surrounding it. This perception led to women being denied entry into religious...
Leadership requires: “Ask not what Pakistan can do for you, but what you can do for Pakistan.”
Ikram Sehgal | Duty is what one is required to do by moral or legal obligation. Recognizing this duty means a person theoretically commits himself to its fulfilling it without considering one’s own self-interest,...
Narendra Modi’s “Israeli Style Settlements” not acceptable in Kashmir: Yasin Malik
Israeli style settlements are not acceptable in Kashmir. Yasin Malik, Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) reiterated this while talking with...
Kashmir: A crisis the world wants to ignore
Julie Cooper This week Members of Parliament gathered in the House of Commons to debate the continued instability in Kashmir, the second time Parliament has...
How bacha bazi has still not ended in Afghanistan?
In Bacha Bazi, is a sexual practice involving two males that remains common in Afghanistan through many centuries, but relations between the two involved are...
Kashmir Day: Why Feb 5, 2017 becomes important?
What is Kashmir Day? Kashmir Solidarity Day, or Kashmir Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan and Pakistani administered part of Jammu & Kashmir (Azad...
Hafiz Saeed’s captivity: Has Pakistan’s Establishment finally realized its mistakes?
James M. Dorsey| Pakistan has put one of the world’s most wanted man under house arrest in a half-hearted crackdown on its militant group with...
Is Nawaz Sharif using “Hafiz Saeed arrest drama” to change his political fortunes?
The reported ‘arrest’ of allegedly international terrorist Hafiz Saeed by Pakistani government has been interpreted in different ways. While one view says Pakistan has arrested...
Indian Education Minister ‘diseases can be cured by strolling near a cow’
The Indian cow is apparently omnipotent, or so it would seem from the latest comment made by the country's education minister, Vasudev Devnani. Earlier, according to him,...
Is Pakistan at risk of coup in 2017 along with Turkey, Russia and US?
Alex Christoforou | As the joke goes… “Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?” The answer: “Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.” The...
Titanic of Pakistani Politics: PTI & PMLN; Upper Deck & Lower Deck?
Dr Farid A. Malik | Most of you will remember the 1997 blockbuster by Producer and Director James Cameron. If you don't remember Cameron, you will...
CPEC: Conspiracy Theories of Success & Failure
Samina Tippu | Pakistani public, media and now even Chinese stakeholders in CPEC have started celebrating as if China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become reality...