Facebook and Twitter silence Trump: Nothing done to curb violence and lies in South Asia?

On January 8th, Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account after an internal review. The American microblogging service claimed that the president’s tweets posed...

Op-ed:Through trade and policy China is grasping its rule over its neighbors

For long, China has made its place in Pakistan's internal trade policy, and has never thought otherwise, no matter geo-political conditions in the region....

Vandalism on the Capitol Hill: Food for thought for Pakistan’s democracy

The mob attack on the Hill engenders several questions about ‘demokratia’, ‘power to the people’. Has democracy become outdated in the modern age? Or,...

The Seeds of Governance Destruction are Hidden in the CSS Exam itself

The seeds of governance destruction are hidden in the CSS exam itself. An examination, in which more than 80% of candidates fail in ‘Essay’...

Op-ed: Interesting events unfolding in DC, half the cabinet has resigned

VP Pence is apparently upset over Trump’s criticism and is almost ready to invoke the 25th Amendment, which gives him the power to alert the...

Op-ed: Modi sponsors militant outfits in India

Following the Bharatya Janata Party’s electoral victories, there has been a mushroom growth of anti-Muslim quasi-military outfits in India. Extremist organizations like the Rashtrya...

Op-ed: Trump just killed the Republican Party

With the results of the Georgia Senate runoffs coming in, many media outlets have called the races for both Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and...

Increased sectarian violence in Pakistan, why is the Gulf silent?

Silent about rising sectarian violence in Pakistan, Gulf states vying for religious soft power risk exposing the limitations of their concepts of an undefined...

Op-ed: Looking back at Salman Taseer’s killing

As if driven by intuition, only a few days before Mumtaz Qadri gunned him down at Kohsar Market in the heart of the federal...

PML-N’s ‘Jaag Punjab’ slogan shouldn’t be taken lightly

The Freemasons Hall of Democracy located on 33 Davis Road Lahore has produced many marvels to detract the democratic order in the country, the...

Op-ed: Pakistani politics may be more banal than its analysts make it out to be

Authors: Marzia Raza and Muhammad Salman   Aqil Shah’s latest piece in Foreign Affairs twists publicly available information on Pakistan’s recent political history and civil-military relations...

Nawaz-Maryam & Zulfikar-Benazir father daughter duos compared

In November 1967 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) launched his PPP in Lahore. During his mistrial he had wished to be buried here as he...