Mahwish Arshad’s case: Violence against women is a demonstration of power
News Analysis | Mahwish Arshad, a 19-year-old, worked for a local travel company. She was shot and killed by a man, Umer Daraz -one of...
CPEC: Pakistan’s ‘Chinanization’ or Colonization?
Adnan Qaiser | It is said that in 1960 when Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he advised...
SC stopped us from becoming a “Gangster Heaven”
Ikram Sehgal | Consensus on matters ensuring security and welfare of the common man is rarely achieved by our parliament. Such unanimity is only displayed...
National interests and geopolitical factors in Russia-Pakistan Relations
Leonid Savin | Presentation text read at the international conference “The Seventy-year Jubilee of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the USSR/Russia and Pakistan”, Russian...
Nawaz claims that July deadline in NAB cases can hamper party’s chances in polls
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday claimed that Supreme Court’s decision to extend the deadline for one month to wrap up the...
SC dismisses petition seeking Sheikh Rashid’s disqualification
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday announced its verdict in favor of Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Ahmed Rashid in the misdeclaration of...
Nawaz Sharif finally submits a reply to SC in Asghar Khan Case
News Desk | The former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif and the Jamaat- e- Islami Chief Siraj ul Haq have submitted their – long due -...
Pakistan cement sees record 11 month production run despite Ramadan
News Analysis | Business activity slowed during the month of Ramadan in Pakistan, with cement demand also affected. In May 2018, domestic cement sales were...
Estranged Nisar poses new challenges for Sharifs; criticizes his former bosses
News Analysis | The former Interior Minister and a senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has announced to contest the upcoming...
Chief Justice says stakeholders of Kala Bagh Dam will stay unaffected by SC’s order
News Analysis | On Saturday, the Supreme Court Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar remarked that the Supreme Court is entirely Pakistan’s court and its decision...
My Fundamental rights are being violated, complains elder Sharif
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has once again complained that his basic rights, as a citizen of Pakistan, were being violated....
Geopolitics and geo-economics of belt and road
Babar Zehri | The key Chinese foreign policy-makers, including the whole standing committee of the politburo, summoned a landmark conference dedicated to ‘Peripheral Diplomacy’. It...