Contractor Ashiyana Housing Scheme, Shahid Shafiq, handed over to NAB
Farah Adeed | In a fresh development a local court in Lahore handed over the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bismillah Engineering, a private construction...
Is FATF a tool reflecting US, UK hypocrisy?
Waqas Shabbir | United Kingdom was an ally of the US when both countries put forward the motion to put Pakistan on the terror watch-list...
Pakistan political system’s 21 day countdown
Farrukh Saleem| Judge Mohammad Bashir of Accountability Court-1, who is hearing graft cases against the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members, retires...
Close to the Dead End, Sharifs Out to blow the system
Shaheen Sehbai| I am happy to write this in Calibri font, as it is not illegal anymore. But this piece can only be written in...
Election campaigning on the roll: three parties three narratives
News Desk | As the 2018 general elections draw near, the three major parties in Pakistan: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan...
Pakistan takes Defence Attaches of six countries to visit LOC
News Analysis | Defence Attaches of US, UK, France, China, Turkey and Indonesia visited Line of Control (LOC) in Rawalakot Sector of Azad Jammu &...
Who will become the next chief of PML-N?
News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) became a headless party after the disqualification of former premier Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court (SC)...
US to hold Islamabad accountable for its actions: White House
News Analysis | President Donald Trump is not satisfied with the progress made by Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and the US is holding...
The pitfalls of Judicial Activism and what to do about It
Abdur Rahim | American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Junior introduced the controversial term “Judicial activism” in Fortune Magazine in an article titled “...
Bureaucrats united against NAB over Ahad Cheema’s corruption charges
News Analysis | Bureaucrats of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) have created a deadlock by observing a pen-down strike on Friday against the arrest of...
Is Democracy merely rule of the majority?
Farah Adeed | Democracy is under the threat not only in Pakistan but across the globe. Authoritarian tendencies of political leaders in both established and transitional...
Pakistan-Russia counter terrorism co-operation
Zeeshan Hayat | Counter-terrorism cooperation has been an important aspect of Pakistan-Russia relations. During the visit of former President Pervez Musharraf to Russia in 2003,...