Imran Khan’s anti-corruption drive pitched against high odds

How do we explain opposition parties’ cacophony of protests and resignations? Is it opposition for the sake of opposition, or a quest for power...

BECA putting Pakistan’s military might to test

Currently, the United States militarily prefers India over its seven-decade-old South Asian ally, Pakistan. It has been transferring state of the art weapons and...

Indian Chronicles manifest the dangers of 5G warfare

For the past many years, the idea of fifth-generation narrative warfare has been ridiculed in Pakistan. The few—who argue that non-military narrative instruments are...

How can PML-N call itself a democratic party?

In a recent BBC interview when Ishaq Dar was confronted with the fact that his leader Mian Nawaz Sharif was himself a protégé of...

Modi government renames bio-tech centre after pro-Nathsi RSS ideologue Golwalkar

At a ceremony in India’s southern state Kerala, Indian prime minister, a Rashtriya Swayem Sevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps) member, has decided to rename...

Op-ed: the KTH mishap; do we need a new set of hospital reforms?

Healthcare reform involves orchestrating a policy change, mediated through governance, management, and financial interventions. The aim is to improve the ways in which health...

Biden & Yemen: Will He Do The Right Thing Even For The Wrong Reasons?

It would arguably be the morally right thing for the US to stop funding the GCC’s War on Yemen like Biden previously promised that he’d do...

A rebuttal to Noam Chomsky’s comment on Pakistan & religion

Recently, a renowned social scientist, Noam Chomsky commented that “Pakistan used to have advanced science with Nobel laureates and so on… Pakistan has no...

Will the Imran Khan Government Offer PDM a Grand National Dialogue?

Fahd Hussain, prominent television anchorperson and resident editor of Dawn in Islamabad, who also hosts his program, In Focus, on Dawn News Television, has...

America-prompted revolutions: Lessons for the Muslim World

American Wars by Other Means The United States of America has been a world power for almost a century. This century saw the highest level...

Op-Ed: Demolition of Babri Mosque is an act of Hindu revenge

India is, constitutionally, a secular country. A Constitution is a fundamental law from which other laws emanate. But the Indian government and its courts...

Freemasons of Democracy should be disarmed

The Freemasons Hall on 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam stood on the main thoroughfare of Lahore as a symbol of secrecy and intrigue. No one knew what...