Kashmir: A way forward
Iltija Mufti daughter of former Chief Minister of J&K Mehbooba Mufti appeared on a NDTV program (https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-big-fight/omar-abdullah-mehbooba-mufti-slapped-with-psa-violation-of-democracy-or-essential-for-normalcy-540116?livevideo-top-shows ) where she tried to give an...
Public hanging: Certainty not the severity of punishment matters
Resolution passed by National Assembly on Friday, calling for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists, has created quite a stir. The...
Humanity in the face of an ecological apocalypse
Sir Francis Bacon was a staunch critic of scientific method development but being a philosophical-scientific giant, atheists are gung-ho to recruit him as a...
Trump’s Middle East plan envisages only one state
The long-awaited US plan for resolving the intractable conflict between Palestine and Palestine was announced earlier this week, but the timing of the announcement...
Modi, Trump, Netanyahu: A new world order guided by might is right
Opinion | The real issue with US President Donald J. Trump’s Deal of the Century Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is not whether it stands a chance...
Pakistan’s youth remain intellectual cannon-fodder
Opinion | As these words are being written, scores of well-meaning but largely self-deluded political hocks are being wrongfully arrested and carted off to face...
State Bank’s monetary policy: A haunting future for Pakistan?
Opinion | There we have it again. Interest rate or the discount rate has been retained at 13.25% for another two months. Ignoring calls from...
Resurrection of political mafia
Without completely weeding out of the “political mafias,” the future of Pakistan will remain bleak. The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), in its historic judgment...
Protesters push Arab militaries off their pedestal
Opinion | Long gone are the days when protesters on Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanted “the military and the people are one.” In 2011 it was the...
NAB: A rejuvenated agency facing propaganda warfare
Opinion | The country’s apex anti-graft watchdog National accountability bureau (NAB) is often subjected to unfounded stricture by those people against whom it takes action...
Rohingya: The most persecuted minority in the world
The Rohingya have been named “the most persecuted minority in the world” by the United Nations, following a wave of atrocities unseen since genocides...
Hypocrisy of Modi’s Secular India
With a population of about 1.4 billion of which about 80% of Indians are Hindus, 14% Muslim and 2% Christian, 4% follow other religions....