As expected, the PMLN’s last-ditch effort to give peace a chance has crashed. The two committees have failed to set...

Facts are facts. They should be admitted because they illuminate the way forward. On February 12, Taliban terrorists stormed the...

As expected, the two committees set up by the government and the Taliban respectively to kick-start the peace-dialogue have run...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met COAS General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday, January 28, to cement the government’s resolve to finally...

To act or not to act against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, that is the question. It has finally dawned upon the...

Ex-CJP Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’s interventionist legacy is alive and kicking. The pronouncements and decisions of High Court and Supreme Court...

If the Sharif government had deliberately set out to distract people from its failure to provide quick fixes to bread...

If Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif were to look down the barrel of 2014, he would see five main areas of...

According to conventional political wisdom, a newly elected government should take all the hard and unpopular decisions in the first...

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the PMLN’s interior minister, has passionately proclaimed his “Muslim identity” above his “Pakistani nationality”. Speaking on...

When Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was restored as Chief Justice of Pakistan in March 2009, he was the conquering hero of...

In Pakistan, as experts have pointed out, the tail has always wagged the dog. This is to say that the...

Discretionary practice rather than the seniority principle has prevailed in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s appointment of General Raheel Sharif, third...

The Sharif government has finally complied with Supreme Court directives to initiate an Article 6 Treason Case against General (retd)...

Munawwar Hassan, head of the Jamaat-i-Islami, has outraged many Pakistanis by calling TTP leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, who was droned to...

Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in Waziristan since 2009, is dead, thanks to a drone strike. His...

An extraordinary judicial intervention in the affairs of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has thrown everything and everyone into confusion,...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Barack Obama have their mutual “challenges” cut out for them because they are miles...

No one can take issue with the findings and recommendations of the latest report of the Human Rights Commission of...

COAS General Ashfaq Kayani has announced his intention to call it a day on 29th November. The decision came amidst...

Since the last All Parties Conference recognized the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan as “stakeholders” with whom to hold “unconditional peace talks”, TTP...