Electables: Biggest impediment to change in Pakistan

Farid A Malik| Electables have proven to be the biggest impediment to change. They negate the basic concept of ballot driven democracy. Influence has always...

Nawaz lands in Pakistan, rolls his sleeves for a major battle!

News Analysis | Former Prime Minister and president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif arrived in Islamabad today to appear in an accountability...

The myth of ‘Greater Baluchistan’ debunked: Part II

Zara Ali | The advent of the 20th century marked the beginning of political awareness among the younger generation of the western educated Baluch elite. The...

Punjab to cede 9 seats to KP & Balochistan in next general elections

News Analysis | Speaker of the National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said Punjab will lose 9 national assembly seats in the next general elections....

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif?

News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has decided to field the incumbent Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif as the candidate for the premiership...

Murder of an ordinary man with extraordinary political significance 

Shiffa Yousafzai | Just when we had started to feel that law and order situation has improved in the country in general and in KPK in...

BLF leaders’ wife arrested from Chaman: Why is it significant?

News Analysis | Law-enforcement agencies in Balochistan have arrested three women from Chaman, claiming that they belong to banned outfits. Reports assert that one of...

The CIA’s new anti-Taliban strategy might help Daesh

Andrew Korybko | The New York Times reported over the weekend that the CIA would be redirecting most of its Afghan efforts towards directly thwarting...

Thank you Najam Sethi!

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Former Kiwi fast-bowler and currently one of the darlings of cricket watchers, Danny Morrison was shouting, chirping and "revving it...

Our real intellectual crisis is not that we are failing to produce Einsteins

Dr. S. Zulfiqar Gilani | Discerning people agree that we have an intellectual crisis in the country. However, write-ups on the crisis are largely descriptive...

London Plan: PML-N rejects minus Nawaz formula as Nisar lambastes party

News Analysis | The top PML-N leadership, yesterday, rejected ‘minus-Nawaz’ formula for the ruling party and warned they would not accept any unconstitutional step in...

Pakistan trying to crack a fresh helicopter deal with the US!

News analysis| Pakistan is trying to crack a new deal to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters to carry out anti-narcotics operations in FATA and Balochistan....