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The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led coalition government is of the opinion that the establishment should also take ownership of ...

Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail said on Friday that the government's talks with the International Monetary Fund ...

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

The Existential Crisis Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country with the world’s fifth-largest population (median age is 23) and one of the ...

Despite the centrality of the dispute of Jammu & Kashmir in the political, economic and diplomatic discourse of the mainland ...

The environment of political drama, chaos and uncertainty is eerily familiar. In the ensuing days, we will see tens of ...

As curtains are drawn on the sordid saga of a hybrid regime, thrust upon the people of Pakistan supposedly by ...

Dear Prime Minister, congratulations! But you have only won half the battle: in these terribly polarising times, winning the prime-ministership ...

The media is obsessed with the political games of PM Imran Khan and the opposition. There are blind PTI supporters ...

“General Faiz will become the next army chief.” This was the biggest ‘argument’ that many people put forth in response ...

While in Pakistan a mere suspicion of blasphemy invites vigilante violence, in India the vigilante lynching is reserved for those ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who happens to be an ally of the government, has urged Prime ...

There are reasons to believe that the establishment is disillusioned with more than just Prime Minister Imran Khan — their ...

There was little to cheer in 2021. Internal politics was riven by acrimony, instability and uncertainty. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) ...

The global financial crisis of 2008–2009 has considerably affected the world’s supply of exports. Due to decreasing demand in the ...

Worldwide, migrant workers are exploited by countries that build entire economies on their backs. Earlier this year, it was revealed ...

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...

In the post-Musharraf period, Pakistani politicians have been behaving as if they are revolutionaries. Their self image as political radicals ...

Saudi Arabia, which leads the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) of 57 Muslim nations constituting over 1.3 billion people, has ...

Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to ...

Press clubs and journalist unions across the country have condemned Dr Shahbaz Gill’s comments regarding journalist Asma Shirazi. Gill has ...

Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chief Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif have called ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to impose income taxes worth around Rs225 billion and has raised questions ...

It all began with celebratory fireworks, couched in the vows to quickly turn things around because they were ‘clean,’ which ...

In this article, I would like to weave my writings for newspapers with a bit of my personal story of ...

The Mughals were among the most eminent rulers of the South Asian Subcontinent. They, while ruling the world’s most populous ...