Tag: civil

In the last few years, a new word has been added to the political vocabulary – “Syrianization.” This new word ...

Just 24 years after its birth, Pakistan suffered the most tragic and horrific shock of its short history when the ...

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

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

In this continued tug of war of power among the political parties, individuals and the establishment, the possibility of a ...

Will November prove to be the cruellest month of all? The outcome depends on the answers to some burning questions. ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the map of the Communist world changed beyond recognition. The USSR disappeared and ...

Although an unconventional read, I was surprised at the ambitions and imaginative force depicted by Shehan Karunatilaka – the float ...

The politicisation of the establishment by a political party is a recent development in the history of Pakistan. It is ...

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

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

The case of Lebanon is a complex one. The country got independence from the French in 1943 and faced a ...

One cannot help but begin with the question asked by the Bard as his melancholy protagonist, Hamlet, contemplated death and ...

Sri Lanka, the land of Ceylon Tea and technically sound batsmen, has gone through a complete and utter political and ...

Over five decades have passed since East Pakistan seceded, after terrible carnage and a bruising civil war, marking the period ...

The Iconoclast Images of fanatical Chinese youth waving Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’ (Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) during the Cultural Revolution appeared ...

The favourite pastime of the chattering classes in Pakistan is blaming corruption for all the ills in our society. It is ...

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the ...

After lengthy deliberations, the Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser has finally summoned the session of the House on ...

An explosion which appears to have targeted a police vehicle on Quetta’s Jinnah Road has claimed the lives of three ...

With the advent of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 2018, there were high hopes in some quarters that the rule of ...

It snowed late last night in Washington: perhaps a fitting end, in some metaphoric sense, to a day that marked ...

Seven people including a policeman have been wounded in a blast in Quetta. The explosion took place in the Nawa ...

The last couple of years have brought about a resurgence of the debate on race, caste distinctions and slavery within ...