Despite stable economic growth, why do people lack basic necessities?

People in Pakistan yearn for economic growth. Some claim it to be the only vibrant indicator to assess the health of an economy. But...

Citizens carry the burden of state’s failures

Unwillingly the people of Pakistan have to carry the entire burden of the non-performing state. In a high school civics class, we were taught...

Do male journalists in Pakistan face online abuse, harassment?

For the past fifteen days, female journalists and anchorpersons in Pakistan have aggressively and vehemently taken up the issue of online trolling, abuse, and...

A rare defeat at the UN reflects a faltering American empire

In a sign of changing times, the United States suffered a humiliating defeat at the UN Security Council. The UNSC rejected a US resolution...

In the memory of Hussain-Ibn-Ali (A.S.)

History is an unforgiving court. It sits in judgment over god-kings and sprawling empires that had conquered the known world of their time. And...

How Iran’s democratic security is linked with CPEC-plus

First of all, how do you define Hybrid Wars? The term Hybrid Wars generally refers to unconventional warfare, and can be divided into psychological and...

Mumtaz Bola; the exemplary record keeper

After the partition of the Subcontinent on August 14, 1947, while there was an inflow of refugees, there was also a mass exodus of...

A Kashmiri family’s struggle from Baramulla to Ludhiana to Lahore

My great grandfather migrated from a small village called 'Reshi Wund' located in tehsil and district Baramulla in the year 1890. The migration was...

Universal health insurance in KPK manifests PM Imran Khan’s priorities

Imran Khan had once said that the Prime Minister of a country can be considered its father of the nation. The emerging humanitarian angle...

Indo-Pak Partition; The Last Laugh of British Imperialism

August 14; streets bleed green and white and the voices echoes “Pakistan Zindabad”. August 15; the voices of “Jay Hind” confined the environment. In...

The US brokered “Abraham Accord” between Israel and UAE

On 13th August 2020, UAE and Israel signed a US-brokered agreement that has come to be known as the ‘Abraham Accord’, implying that the...

Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relationship has tremendous potential

The remarks by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi earlier this month wherein he described the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) response on the...