Is democracy consistent with Islam?
Nauman Sadiq | Some people are under the impression that democracy and Islam are incompatible. But I don’t see any contradiction between democracy and Islam,...
World development from the lens of Young photographers
Recently United Nations organized an international photography contest welcoming the young photographers to encapsulate their ideas and feelings about the optimistic sustainable development goals....
Doha turns to Islamabad as the Gulf crisis festers.
News Analysis | Amid the simmering Qatar crisis, Doha has asked Pakistan to play its role to defuse the row with fellow Gulf countries. Last...
Joint Investigation Team summary report in English and Urdu
The 10-volume report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) Â instituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Prime Minister and his family over the...
Refugee or migrant? Sometimes the line is blurred
A dozen years before the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe’s shores would force policymakers to take heed, Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 docudrama In this World brought the...
Our government needs to stop looking at our private parts
M. Usama Khawar | Last month Pakistan’s government handed out its first death penalty for the charge of blasphemy online. While the question of the...
Choices for the foes and saviors of the system
Nawal Amjad | The Panama Case has ‘seemed’ to have been the most straightforward of all cases, but just in the words of a very...
Chinese and Indian troops face off in Bhutan border dispute
News Analysis | China has conveyed to foreign diplomats in Beijing that troops of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been waiting patiently at the...
Of slapping sanctions and regime change; the noose tightens on Tehran.
News Analysis | A day after dishing-out the second certificate of Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal, the Trump administration announced new sanctions on individuals...
Brig Jafar Khan: A Soldier and a Gentleman
Ikram Sehgal | The words of one of late Brig Jafar Khan’s closest friends Brig (Retd) Asmat Beg Humayun best describes one of Pakistan Army’s...
Elitocracy: The Pakistani democratic system
Nauman Sadiq | The biggest fault in democracy, as it is practiced all over the world, is the election campaign funding part, because the individuals...
Trump’s Afghanistan strategy is simply old wine in a new bottle
Michael Kugelman | Afghanistan has suffered through a harrowing summer, even by the nightmarish standards of a country convulsed by conflict for decades. A cycle of...