Shehbaz Sharif most likely to be new PML-N president

News Analysis | Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif is expected to become acting president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Ousted Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz...

Imran Khan weighs in on bureaucrat protests

News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has threatened that if the protesting bureaucrats do not reopen their offices on Monday, he will...

Pakistan’s “train and advise” mission reverses its power relations with Saudi Arabia

Andrew Korybko | Pakistan decided to dispatch troops to Saudi Arabia in order to “train and advise” its military. The news broke late last week and...

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...

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...