Smart lockdowns in Pakistan: making them smarter

Smart lockdowns are a viable option of active intervention of the government to launch targeted tracking, tracing, testing and quarantine mechanism in coordination with...

Afghan Endgame: Time running out for Kabul government

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad paid his second visit to Islamabad in less than a month on July 1 and held consultations with Pakistani...

Judge Arshad Malik’s misconduct may help reform the judiciary

On Friday, the Administrative Committee of the honourable Lahore High Court—consisting of the seven senior most judges, headed by the Chief Justice—dismissed the infamous...

Declare Emergency now: Is this the only way of salvation for Pakistan

Revising their original estimates within three months, WHO says a “second”, and maybe a “third wave” “is likely”, both the IMF and the US...

Modi’s Weibo diplomacy’ with Beijing comes to an end!

The common perception among Indian analysts, widely articulated in our media, is that the government’s options to ‘hit back’ at China for whatever has...

Russo-Taliban ties: Did the Russians really offer bounty for the Americans?

The New York Times' latest fake news provocation alleging that Russia's military-intelligence agency GRU solicited the Taliban (officially designated as "terrorists" by Moscow) to...

Guardians of Pakistan’s backdoor politics failed Pakistan!

Politics in the land of the pure has suffered due to backdoor entries. The list is long and painful, from the Chaudhrys of Gujrat...

Debunking the female voice behind Baloch missing persons

For the past few days, a plethora of videos and images of certain Baloch women have taken social media by storm. These women can...

In the aftermath of PSX attack, follow this path to neutralise BLA

The killing of eight people in the militant attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on Monday has sent shock waves around...

West Bank annexation and its ramifications for Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex parts of West Bank and the Jordan Valley into Israel starting July 1. His plan to...

How BLA’s attack on PSX is scarier than it looks

With apologies to Ian Fleming for paraphrasing the title, terrorism is back again in Karachi. The attack by the banned BLA at the PSX...

US in desperate need of Pakistan as leaks reveal Russian Intelligence paying cheques to Taliban

As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has...
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