Amidst the continuing din of the Dharnas in clinical Islamabad, an important announcement in the badlands of Waziristan has largely...

Regarding floods: one solitary photograph on the inside page of a newspaper tells the story better than reams of newsprint....

The “conspiracy” to get rid of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been exposed. Although the circumstantial evidence was compelling, no...

The political crisis has come to a head. Someone or something must give quickly and diffuse the situation. Or there...

Three new developments suggest that, despite the aggressive and uncompromising rhetoric, the political crisis provoked by the long marches of...

It isn’t a coincidence that Imran Khan has woken up a year after the elections to contest their wholesale legitimacy...

In the life of every nation-state, Independence Day is celebrated with collective joy and thanksgiving. It is the one day...

The PMLN government has decided to apply Article 245 of the constitution and deploy the army to manage law and...

There is an overwhelming consensus in the country that significant electoral reforms are needed to improve the quality of the...

Khawaja Saad Rafique has all but announced a U-turn in PMLN policy on General ® Pervez Musharraf’s fate. He says...

Politics is taking another ugly turn in Pakistan. Unfortunately, politicians are at the centre of the gathering storm, notwithstanding the...

In an extraordinary interview to the BBC, ex-DG-ISPR, Maj-Gen (r) Athar Abbas has shed light on an issue that has...

Dr Tahirul Qadri has revived the imagination of the media with talk of a “revolution”. He has triggered panic in...

It has been a momentous week. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan launched one of its most audacious attacks to date on Karachi...

The audacious terrorist attack on Karachi airport by Central Asian terrorists has finally brought home one naked truth. The terrorists...

Altaf Husain’s fate was foretold. With his recent arrest in London, the noose has been tightened. This is the beginning...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s trip to New Delhi has provoked the usual war mongers to ask some prickly questions. Why...

The onslaught of the military establishment on GEO for over-stepping the red line by airing Hamid Mir’s allegation against the...

Once General Pervez Musharraf was Imran Khan’s great hero because he expected to get the top berth from the general....

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is everyone’s favourite whipping boy.  Even those who have never picked up a ball or...

The Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) is deeply controversial. Except for the law enforcement agencies (military, paramilitary and police forces),...

The attempted target-assassination of Hamid Mir, a prominent journalist, in Karachi has raised several key issues. First, his own testament...

The PMLN government should feel apprehensive about developments on two fronts and smug about prospects on a third. This means...

Despite its controversial, indeed farcical, nature, the trial of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for treason under Article 6 of the...

The issue of granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading status to India is still hanging fire. General Pervez Musharraf’s regime...