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"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (It is sweet and proper to die for one's country) Migration is a ...

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

If the existing political and constitutional morass bedeviling the country was not serious enough, President Dr Alvi has written a ...

Since the present regime has promised to bring about electoral reforms before they call for fresh elections, I am proposing ...

In the early 2000s, a T-Shirt became popular among the then young ‘millennials.’ The message on the T-Shirt said, “I’m ...

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

Two days ago, President Arif Alvi rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advice to remove Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema from ...

Pakistan grapples with yet another leader who refuses to settle for anything but power. The ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan ...

On 20 December 1971, hours after being sworn in as President/Chief Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made ...

Probably reaching its height in the tug of war in Pakistani power politics, a demonstration of the vulgarity of state ...

Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones ...

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

For a nation, at any given point in time, the most dismal of fears is to know that the future ...

In the past month, there has been much discussion on whether the Superior Courts can interfere in parliamentary procedure and ...

The country witnessed paroxysms of rage and irrational hatred in the wake of a successful vote of no confidence motion ...

After one month of a province of 120 million people having been callously placed in a rudderless state by the ...

It was unimaginable. It was unthought of. However, it did happen with all its viciousness. No doubt politics is cruel. ...

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

Bishandaur, now called Dewan-e-Hazoori/Huzoori, is a historical village in Sohawa tehsil in the Jhelum district. It was called Bishandaur Sharif ...

The PTI’s much-vaunted three-and-a-half-year sheen of moral rectitude and high ethical standards is losing its shine with embarrassing rapidity. But ...

After President Yahya Khan launched a military operation to crush the opposition, Bengalis who resisted were called “miscreants” – this ...

Pakistani analyst Nadeem Farooq Paracha (NFP) recently shared a tweet by the former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, ...

The United Kingdom’s constitution is uncodified. Theoretically, all legal powers are exercised in the name of the monarch, currently the ...

Reports on the meeting in London between PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif indicate that the ...

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...

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