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On his watch, the Pakistani army decided to attack Indian positions at Kargil, Kashmir, in the spring of 1999. He ...

In February of 2002, Gujarat, a state in western India, witnessed one of the deadliest instances of communal violence in ...

On the 14th of January, the Punjab Assembly was dissolved by the Chief Minister of Punjab Parvez Elahi, and this ...

Imran Khan, the self-proclaimed “cornered tiger,” is riding the crest of a wave of popular support. He’s exuding confidence since ...

"Stay connected with India's fastest-growing political party because it is reshaping the political landscape in India." These words are written ...

Pakistani military leaders' decision to remain apolitical is a constitutional anomaly. This decision confirms the military's status as an independent ...

Only five years back, the Western media was churning out cartoons in which Imran Khan was depicted as a toddler ...

Since the 1950s, the anti-Ahmadiyya card has been used in Pakistan’s applied and electoral politics for extra milage. Particularly after ...

Scene 1: Strict security around Qalandar’s Aastana – armoured vehicles, anti-tank canons, ambulances, firefighting tankers, dozens of choppers, internet/phone services ...

Scene 1: Qalandar is playing chess online with Bobby Fischer who is giving him tough time. Koila (coal) interrupts him. ...

From 16 to 22 October, the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its 20th National Congress. The aim was not ...

A Baloch woman wearing her bridal jewelry could walk alone from one end of the Balochistan province to the other ...

Regarding the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, it may be argued that airing the internal disagreements ...

Those who rule out martial live in a promised land. Their opinion is predicated on the political scenes of 1971 ...

The Pakistan Army should not fulminate against Imran Khan’s chicanery, for reasons best prescribed by the ‘common sense’. What did ...

Dear Prime Minister, in the not-too-distant future you have to take a momentous decision: the toughest that any Pakistani prime ...

Undoubtedly now the battle ground is open for a full-throttle lawyers’ movement that has been thrust upon society by the ...

In legal theory, Dworkin’s utopian-style judge is godlike, resolute, well-read, analytical and even has the powers to “make decisions that ...

43 years ago in April 1979, a former prime minster of Pakistan, Z.A. Bhutto, was executed for allegedly ordering the ...

Columnist and former MNA Ayaz Amir, addressing the Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA)’s seminar on “Regime Change,” in the ...

Over the years, you might have heard plenty of philosophical mumbo-jumbo about the past: that the past is the present; ...

In public remarks delivered in Islamabad, former prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that he never intended to appoint an ...

The judiciary hates it when criticised in political rallies or on social media. But time and again the judiciary ends ...

“It would have been better for an atom bomb to have been dropped on the country than to have let ...

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

Senior bureaucrat Ahad Cheema, who tendered his resignation from service, wrote a strongly-worded letter, saying that he had been “roped ...