Op-ed: Fake news, economic disappointment drive people towards ‘saviors’
“The thing that strikes me more and more…is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time…I mean that almost nobody seems...
Op-ed: PML-N, PPP stalling accountability process by manipulating system
The accountability process is not moving mainly because of the planned delays by the accused. The PML(N) and PPP (Zardari) policy of stalling the...
Op-ed: Abdullah Abdullah is more a ‘son of the soil’ than US-bound Ghani
The total military expenditure in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 is $822bn, this includes the US Department of Defense, State Department, USAID...
Babri Mosque case: Indian courts are no longer immune to Hindutva frenzy
All the 32 accused, including LK Advani, in the Babri Mosque demolition case have been acquitted by the special CBI court in Lucknow on...
Op-ed: The bureaucracy should be declared sick and then appropriately treated
Like most state institutions, the bureaucracy should also be declared sick and then appropriately treated. I was motivated to write on this subject after...
The boy with a dead rooster
The heart breaking video of a child in Sanghar, who was holding his dead rooster in his arms while calling out Prime Minister Imran...
Plundering Hindustan in the name of Hindutva: Emperor, where are your clothes?
You (Modi) can escape from the blame of the Gujarat 2002 genocide by making a deal with KPS Gill and obtaining the declaration that...
Op-ed: Analysing Pakistan’s criminal justice system
For how long will the rulers ignore dire warnings of an impending chaos? The ever-rising incidence of crime — particularly those targeting women and children...
The decline of the Arab and Muslim world, the unfateful year of 1979
The question haunts us in the Arab and Muslim world. We repeat it like a mantra. You will hear it from Iran to Syria,...
Op-ed: Nawaz Sharif has strong words, but weak credibility
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, through a video link, roared like a lion from the safety of his London residence in his speech to the...
Normalization with Israel to provide Gulf states cover against growing influence of Iran
The unveiling of the peace agreements between the state of Israel and the Gulf States of UAE and Bahrain depicts a classic example of...
Is Europe willing to sustain economic ties with China?
As the global geopolitical sphere shapes up into a battleground between the US and China, Europe will have to ally either an erratic Donald...