Elephants in the room: Bureaucracy & the Privileged Classes?

M Zafar Khan Safdar | The gradual erosion of social infrastructure, endemic poverty and the growing inequality between the regions undermined the civil society and...

Islamists & Liberal Fascists: Two extremes of Pakistan

Farah Adeed |  In Pakistan, unfortunately, both religion and history have been used for the vested and narrow interests and purposes of our political elite and...

Storm in Sindh Assembly: PPP and MQM still use ethnic politics to attack each other

News Analysis | The session of Sindh Assembly became highly controversial when lawmakers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) indulged...

Careem Pak bashed for humiliating skipper Sarfraz Ahmed

News Desk | The Pakistanis lashed out at Careem Pak for trolling the skipper Sarfraz Ahmed after a crushing defeat from Bangladesh in Asia Cup....

SC upholds Jahangir Tareen’s lifetime disqualification

News Analysis | The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the review petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Khan Tareen against his disqualification...

Pashtuns – Caught between Mullah, Militants and the Military – M Zafar Khan Safdar

M Zafar Khan Safdar | With over 50 million people out of 207 million, Pashtuns are the second largest ethnic group covering 25 percent of...

Cricket ‘has no boundaries’ for India-Pakistan superfan friends

AFP | Their governments might not be ready for talks, but that did not stop Pakistan's Mohammad Basheer opening his heart, and his wallet, to...

PM Khan to launch “Pakistan Cleanliness Movement” next month

News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved a groundbreaking project named “Re-Charge Pakistan” for better management and utilization of flood waters to...

No deal: Why is Shahbaz at pains to explain Nawaz’s release?

News Analysis | President of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif has clarified that Nawaz Sharif’s bail from the Islamabad High Court, in connection...

Iftikhar Chaudhry’s son-in-law arrested: a breakthrough for PTI’s government

News Analysis | In an interesting development, a son-in-law of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Chaudhry has been arrested from Dubai in a...

Will the bureaucracy behave? – Farid A Malik

Dr. Farid A Malik | On Sept 14, 2018, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan addressed the bureaucracy in Islamabad. For their support in implementing his...

Is Zulfi Bukhari’s appointment Illegal?

News Analysis | The appointment of Zulfi Bukhari has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan appointed...