Pakistan’s Tragedy: From Rule of Ballot to Rule of Thana!
Dr. Farid A Malik | In 2007 when civil society came out in support of the Lawyers Movement, the purpose was to enforce the rule...
Pak-Afghan ties: Any way to end the blame game?
Abdul Rahim | This week the British Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dominic Jermey, traveled to Islamabad especially to try and lessen the vocal tensions between Afghanistan...
Babur-III: Pakistan creating an arms race or it’s deterrence strategy?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal EVEN though Islamabad has been avoiding an arms race with New Delhi, it is advancing its nuclear delivery systems for checking...
Physical brawl ensues in Pakistan’s National Assembly when lawmakers disagree
A disgraceful event took place in National Assembly Pakistan when representatives sitting in parliament started a physical brawl, fist cuffing each other following the...
Integrity of Political Office Holders: There & Here?
Imtiaz Gul | On January 20, immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Obama family moved to a rented apartment after spending eight years at...
Was Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif forbidden from speaking at Davos?
News Analysis Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif's participation in the World Economic Forum, at Davos, Switzerland, in the third week of January, has created somewhat...
What does Russia now want in Afghanistan? Peace or further discord
Amina Khan | On December 27, 2016, officials from Russia, China and Pakistan met in Moscow for the third Trilateral Dialogue on Afghanistan, where all...
PML-N’s obssesion with building white elephants to win elections
NEARLY 20 years after it opened, Pakistan’s first motorway still has a desolate feel. There is scant traffic along the 375 KM link between...
Why boundaries in music exist between India & Pakistan?
Laksmi Subramanian | At the end of September 2016, the Indian motion picture producer’s association, India’s largest organisation related to entertainment, announced a ban on...
Where does Pakistan fit into Trump’s World?
Najma Minhas | Trump in his inauguration speech declared that “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones” with such words he has given...
Panama Case: Why German Paper’s disclosure may be extremely damaging for Sharif Family?
Most Pakistani papers have failed to analyze why the disclosure by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday, 23 Jan 2017, can be extremely...
A ticking Water Bomb between India and Pakistan
Dr. Huma Baqai | What’s ticking between Pakistan and India is not the nuclear bomb, but the water bomb. For years international relations strategists have...