In Pakistan, the person occupying the office of Chief of the Army Staff should be properly schooled in political affairs....

Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, was once reminded by a Western intellectual, in the wake of the...

Pakistan is once again all set to become a center-piece in the new emerging Cold War between the United States...

Afghanistan could once again become a security headache for powerful regional players. The inability and incapacity of the Afghan Taliban...

There is a myth that exists in the realm of public relations and media. The myth surrounds the Pakistan Army...

Pakistani political leaders have recently developed a penchant for comparing themselves with Sheikh Majeeb-ur-Rehman—the leader of Awami League, who led...

Pakistani journalism has an old tradition of respected and very credible journalists engaging in political activism. These activities have included...

It was in mid-2002 when I bumped into an army general at a friend’s place in Islamabad. He was closely...

It was deeply ironical to hear Rawalpindi's famous politician Sheikh Rashid Ahmed complain about intelligence sleuths chasing his vehicle into...

In July of this year the Russian government informed the Taliban regime in Kabul that there were more than 6000...

Between mid-2021 and early 2022 Pakistani military inducted two new Chinese weapons systems—Type-54 AP Frigates and J-10 fighter Jets—into the...

The killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in the CIA-led drone strike in Kabul on July 31, 2022, could have...

The outcome of General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s phone call to US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman might still be...

In any parliamentary form of government, political parties and leaders demonstrate flexibility -- they strike deals and make compromises to...

In the post-General Ziaul Haq period, Pakistan’s un-savvy political class with their unsophisticated ways of conducting themselves in power struggles,...

Pakistan’s lingering intra-elite conflict is entering a decisive but dangerous phase. It may destruct our fragile parliamentary democracy, power centres...

Governing Pakistan was never easy. Now it is just bordering on impossibility. Its domestic political structures—that includes the normative constitutional...

When Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif made a suggestion that the army as an institution should develop an internal mechanism...

Politics is about a persistent, unending and continuous contest between elites. But if the elites, in order to absolve themselves...

The fascist West is not an outlandish concept anymore. The post-Second World War order that came into being after defeating...

Pakistan is in the heart of a tough neighbourhood. With India to the east and Afghanistan to the west, no...

What unique capacity does the military possess that political parties in Pakistan do not? Why are the political leaders in...

No one in Pakistan doubts the political reality that the military and more specifically its high command dominates the country's...

In 2008, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after almost seven years of exile. He found out that he was as...

Imran Khan’s political campaign related to the alleged 'foreign conspiracy' is based on the premise that people of Pakistan will...

In terms of reporting and analysing political developments in our society, what we are witnessing on our television screens is...