Impunity And Injustice Still Hang Over The 2002 Gujarat Violence
In February of 2002, Gujarat, a state in western India, witnessed one of the deadliest instances of communal violence in ...
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Flood Reconstruction Efforts Struggle To Rebuild 58 Bridges In Balochistan
On 26 August 2023, as heavy rain poured over the Kachhi district, 220,000 cusecs of flood water passed through the ...
Battle For The Caretaker: Mohsin Naqvi, His Plea Bargain And The Law
On the 14th of January, the Punjab Assembly was dissolved by the Chief Minister of Punjab Parvez Elahi, and this ...
Doing Justice To Artists: Who Truly Deserves The Bharat Ratna?
Some Indian friends are down in the dumps: they are the true music lovers and want the distinction between ‘awards’ ...
The Emergence Of FM Bilawal Bhutto Zardari As A Forceful Voice For Pakistan
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, has started ...
How Have Dramatic Changes In 2022 Shaped Pakistan’s Relations With The World’s Big Three?
The year 2022 was a tumultuous one for Pakistan’s domestic politics and even self-image, but one aspect of foreign policy ...
Daughter Of The East, You Are Missed
Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, the iconic twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was brutally assassinated by the ...
Blurring Boundaries Between Spymasters And Statesmen: Consequences For Public Policy
When I entered journalism in November 1992, one of the first things that I learned in the newsroom was that ...
When Will Our Clerics Teach Actual Islam?
On the 13th of December, Maulana Akbar Chitrali was screeching in the parliament, lamenting the ‘disgrace’ that a woman, Hina ...
Sensing Victory, Is Imran Khan Beginning To Backtrack On Some Of His Decisions?
Imran Khan, the self-proclaimed “cornered tiger,” is riding the crest of a wave of popular support. He’s exuding confidence since ...
Aam Aadmi Party Versus Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
"Stay connected with India's fastest-growing political party because it is reshaping the political landscape in India." These words are written ...
Beyond Rhetoric: Why Imran Khan Does Not Pose A Serious Challenge To Military Hegemony
Only five years back, the Western media was churning out cartoons in which Imran Khan was depicted as a toddler ...
A Religio-Political Dilemma: How Far Can Parvez Elahi Afford To Take Anti-Ahmadi Bigotry In Punjab?
Since the 1950s, the anti-Ahmadiyya card has been used in Pakistan’s applied and electoral politics for extra milage. Particularly after ...
It Was Gen Bajwa, Not Faiz Hameed, Who Protected Imran Khan
Imran Khan had come marching towards Rawalpindi blowing his war bugle to topple the Shehbaz Sharif-led regime. Many thought that ...
Why The Military’s Announcement To Stay Apolitical Should Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt
The history of the military's dominance of power structures in Pakistani society is certainly not as old as Pakistan itself: ...
Two Ironies As Pakistan Stands At A Crossroads
Will November prove to be the cruellest month of all? The outcome depends on the answers to some burning questions. ...
Little Good Can Come Out Of This Long March
One of Pakistan’s greatest strengths is that it is going through a ‘delicate situation’ since its birth. Live from the ...
Asad Umar’s Journey From ‘Economic Czar’ To ‘Fool’s Gold’
At loggerheads with both, the incumbent military and the government for the sake of “national interest”, PTI’s raging secretary-general, Asad ...
Sleepwalking To Disaster?
Imran Khan, the political maverick and blue-eyed boy of the establishment, managed to grab power. He did this by the ...
As Governor-General, The Quaid’s Commitment To Secularism Exceeded Western Countries
On the 4th of November 1953, Queen Elizabeth II took her oath in front of the Archbishop, who asked, "Will ...
Lessons In Law And Order – A Case Study From My Time In Balochistan
A Baloch woman wearing her bridal jewelry could walk alone from one end of the Balochistan province to the other ...
Mussolini to Meloni: Understanding How Europe Found Its Way To ‘Neo-Fascism’
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism" – with these words Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels begin ...
PTI Senators Heckle Ishaq Dar During Swearing In Ceremony
PML N leader Ishaq Dar was sworn in as a Senator on Tuesday. The Leader of the House Azam Nazir ...
Nobody Can Even Dare Mention Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam In Pakistan: Minister
Human Rights Minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada said on Friday that Ahmadis were virtually being stabbed to death with the prevalent ...
Indus Set To Experience ‘Very High’ Floods As Nation Deluged: Sherry
Pakistan's flood emergency continues as the country is deluged in unrelenting superfloods, Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said on Friday. ...
As Balochistan Is Drowning, Disaster Management Authorities Have Not Risen To The Occasion
The recent rains have wreaked havoc in Balochistan, mourning is everywhere and people are screaming to help us, but sadly ...
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Pakistan’s Coriolanus: Musharraf’s Haunting Legacy
On his watch, the Pakistani army decided to...
Dollar Smuggling From Pakistan Sustains Taliban Economy: Bloomberg
Millions of dollars are being smuggled into Afghanistan...