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In the late 1980s, a young journalist Fifi Haroon (Fifi), who possessed all the ingredients needed to create something original, ...

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

Faith in the nation-state In 18th-century Europe, philosophers began to note a steady degradation in the influence of Christianity. Sectarian ...

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

I have been in politics for more than 50 years now. Thus, I am going to offer my advice, without ...

Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that ...

Imran Khan used to criticise the Pakistani establishment before coming to power. Then he came to power and stopped criticising ...

Governing Pakistan was never easy. Now it is just bordering on impossibility. Its domestic political structures—that includes the normative constitutional ...

Yet another saazish has been cast against me. It is shameful that my opponents are so vicious in this game ...

“The fast-tracked progress to grant bail to the apprehended suspects shows there is someone powerful behind them, providing support,” Absar ...

I can tell from my 30 years of experience that you have different people as friends when you are leading ...

Pat Sharif was a historical village whose landscape was dotted with the shrines of saints, khanqahs, mosques and madrassahs. The ...

Economic challenges and political chaos are running wild in Pakistan. Since the inception of the country back in 1947, Pakistan ...

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; ...

Even as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the government will impose a 10% "super tax" on large-scale industries to ...

After losing contact with PTI chief Imran Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ramiz Raja hopes to develop ...

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

The 1980s is the decade when Pakistan’s social fabric was completely torn apart by the self-declared reformer, General Zia-ul Haq—a ...

The Quaid dedicated his life to a “land of the pure,” Pakistan. A land marked by effective constitutional machinery, well-intentioned ...

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

The night of April 10, 2022 reinforced a sharp divide in the educated segment of society: between PTI supporters and ...

“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 ...

Most overseas Pakistanis, especially those who chose to settle in the West – and many have no intention to go ...

In 2008, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after almost seven years of exile. He found out that he was as ...