Afghanistan is slowly but surely headed towards an implosion. And that’s going to be an explosive problem for the entire region, especially Pakistan....

WhatsApp groups can be both instructive and disconcerting. The information or occasional debate can be useful; equally, and that’s where disconcerting comes in,...

At one point during his shuttle diplomacy following the 1973 Ramadan War, Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State remarked, “Israel has no...

Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. The three-day visit, May 7-9,...

In an interview last Sunday to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the issue of whether or not...

Since the assumption of office by Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States, Pakistan has tried to reach out to...

The government has been bitterly criticised by the political opposition and civil society opponents for handling or mishandling, if you will, the Tehrik-e-Labaik...

The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government has indicated that it will proscribe Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP). This was tweeted by Sheikh Rashid, the federal interior...

On March 27, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government removed Dr Tariq Banuri, Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), through an ordinance signed by President...

In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, newly-minted Finance Minister Hammad Azhar informed the media that the Economic Coordination Council had cleared import by...

It is time to review the process of engagement with India which became public via the joint statement by Directors-General Military Operations on...

Since 2016, there has been much talk about US-China relations. That’s not really when it began, but that year marks a clear shift...

Since the joint statement about a ceasefire between Pakistan and India at the Line of Control — which came into effect from the...

Language is not just important, it is vital. The words we use inform others of the positions we take. But strategic communication is...

A discussion over the established hotline between Directors-General Military Operations of  Pakistan and India has led to a joint statement, announcing a ceasefire...

In its 73- or 74-year-old (depends on which school of counting one prefers) chequered political history, this country has constantly grappled with the...

Let’s begin with a quick recap of events at the Islamabad High Court last Monday. A large group of unruly lawyers raided the...

On January 2, the anti-terrorism squad of Islamabad police killed a 21-year-old boy, Usama Satti. The initial statement put out by the police’s...

Pakistan Navy is demonstrably the most neglected service. There are reasons for this state of affairs, all of them bad. One, as the...

Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. What should Pakistan expect? Put another way, how different...

News cycle is fickle. New events overtake the old ones, the story of the day pushing out yesterday’s story. But some events continue...

At one point in his Nobel Prize speech, Crediting Poetry, Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney recounted what he described as “One of...

The story is sickeningly familiar. Dead bodies of young Kashmiri boys, official claims about ‘militants’, and some rusty weapons, usually the ubiquitous AK-47...

Last Friday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called a presser while visiting the United Arab Emirates. At the presser he said that Pakistan...

We live in a world increasingly defined by fakery, almost all of it in the digital space. There are reasons for it. People...

The idea of grand national dialogue has recently been much agitated. This is not surprising, given the general performance of the current Pakistan...