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Friday, November 14, 2025

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....

Russia stood by Iran in showdown with US

The US President Donald Trump first said there were ‘no casualties’ in the Iranian missile attack on the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Iraq...