A season for new books

Murtaza Shibli | Apart from the heat generated by the unruly sun, new books are scorching the milieu and pushing the ever-raging debates on Pakistan...

PML-N face challenges in distributing tickets to ‘loyalists’

News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is under huge pressure to ensure that genuine party leaders and trust-worthy electable get the party tickets...

Justice for Khadija: A test for the law, the judge and the justice system!

Farah Adeed | Law has many purposes to serve in a given society. Being a formal mean of social control, the law is expected to...

Twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia: Lessons, challenges and way forward

Syed Adnan Athar Bukhari | 2018 marks twenty years of nuclearization of South Asia. India, though implicitly conducted its nuclear tests under the garb of...

Had no political agenda in past and now: Hassan Askari

News Desk | Care Taker Chief Minister Punjab Professor Hasan Askari says he had no “political agenda” in the past, and now. He said his...

Former govt borrowed $44 billion but failed to stabilize economy

News Desk | Chairman Coordination of FPCCI Malik Sohail Hussain on Saturday said PML-N government borrowed over 44 billion rupees during its tenure which is...

Accountability Court granted third extension to wrap up Sharif’s trail

News Analysis | The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday directed the accountability court to conclude the trial of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif within one...

A generational failure

Saad Rasool | The democratic process in Pakistan has completed its second consecutive term (ten years), for the first time in the country’s history. And...

US officials question their state’s Af-Pak narrative

Imtiaz Gul | Nearly four days before Pak-Afghan officials met in Islamabad to continue their revived dialogue under the Afghan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace...

Shah Rukh Khan’s cousin to contest elections from Peshawar

News Desk | Shah Rukh Khan's Pakistani cousin is contesting the upcoming general elections from KPK. It has long been known that the Bollywood actor...

National Security Committee meeting: FATF challenge ahead?

News Analysis | The National Security Committee met with the caretaker prime minister, retired Justice Nasirul Mulk, on June 8, 2018, to discuss the overall...

Interview with Former RAW Chief A S Dulat

Murtaza Shibli | Murtaza: Do you think the book has achieved its purpose? Dulat: It is very difficult to say. As General Durrani says in the...