Is Nawaz Sharif finally reaching his end?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The Panama Case has reached its culmination point. Amid all hue and cry, the three-member bench of the Supreme Court...
Fake News: an age old phenomenon
Pope Francis shocks world, endorses Donald Trump for president." “Clinton's assistant J. W. McGill is found dead.” “‘Tens of thousands’ of fraudulent Clinton votes found in...
Is slavery in U.S really that different than in North Korea?
Jacob G. Hornberger | Sometimes the mainstream media can be entertaining without intending to. A good example appeared yesterday in an article about slavery in...
Deconstructing Trump: Iran sanctions
M K Bhadrakumar | There is an old impish yarn that Noah was stunned to see the two cats he’d put in the Ark trooping...
Pakistan’s private media: Free or captured?
Faiza Rafique | Pakistanis are still celebrating their fantasy of “free media”; ironically the penetration of vested political and economic interests in country’s so called...
Lunar and Solar eclipses: how and why astronomical study originated
In August, a total solar eclipse will traverse America for the first time in nearly a century. So many tourists are expected to flood...
CPEC: Prosperity project
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Operationalisation scope of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been entire Pakistan, therefore, the project would virtually connect all the...
Is democracy consistent with Islam?
Nauman Sadiq | Some people are under the impression that democracy and Islam are incompatible. But I don’t see any contradiction between democracy and Islam,...
Our government needs to stop looking at our private parts
M. Usama Khawar | Last month Pakistan’s government handed out its first death penalty for the charge of blasphemy online. While the question of the...
Choices for the foes and saviors of the system
Nawal Amjad | The Panama Case has ‘seemed’ to have been the most straightforward of all cases, but just in the words of a very...
Brig Jafar Khan: A Soldier and a Gentleman
Ikram Sehgal | The words of one of late Brig Jafar Khan’s closest friends Brig (Retd) Asmat Beg Humayun best describes one of Pakistan Army’s...
Elitocracy: The Pakistani democratic system
Nauman Sadiq | The biggest fault in democracy, as it is practiced all over the world, is the election campaign funding part, because the individuals...