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...

The political use of religion has proved to be a highly divisive force in our short history of 75 years....

Sometimes candid admissions by leaders can expose dysfunctionality of the country's political system. This is what happened on May 21,...

We have a strong tendency to label our opponents as fascist. Imran Khan has attracted this label more than any...

Pakistan’s right-wingers possess the tendency to romanticize wars and distort the meaning of revolutions. They use glorified images of medieval...

In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination....

The failure or inability of Pakistan Army’s spokesman or any other official from the service to articulate the exact and...

Imran Khan could singlehandedly destroy Pakistan’s political system. Let us consider how. Only a few days after former Prime Minister...

Ever since the creation of Pakistan, a long line of religious ideologues have justified their unpalatable political messages through emotional...