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...

Do Pakistanis pay their rightful taxes?

Opinion | Well, we discussed India’s myth on taxation, so let’s now try and compare how Pakistanis fare against the Indian taxpayers – India by...

Forced conversions to Islam: Ill fate for Hindus in Pakistan

The building of civil court Jacobabad Sindh reverberated with slogans of “ALLAH O AKBAR” when a newly wedded couple comprising of bride named Mehak...

Pakistan’s expected exit from FATF list would put India on the spot

The media reports that in the Indian estimation there is “a 75 per cent chance” of Pakistan exiting the ‘grey list’ of the Financial...

Balochistan’s water-crisis: Tailored solutions before its too late

Opinion | Climate change is further exacerbating the precarious situation by altering the water and weather patterns around the globe, causing droughts and water shortages...
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