Will PTI be able to roll back 18th amendment?
From time to time a heated debate is stirred around the historic 18th constitutional amendment. It cemented the centre-province bonds, restored Constitution in its...
Pakistan to see fourth wave of Afghan refugees
One cannot condemn an entire nation as ungrateful but as a govt Afghanistan certainly qualifies. Despite all that Pakistan has done for Afghans over...
Pakistan’s judicial mind thinks ‘justice rushed is justice crushed’
Where white collar crime is involved, the much-revered common law seems helpless. Onus of proof is on the accuser while the accused has several...
The world failed to prepare itself against zoonotic dieases despite warnings
In a public health policy note of the World Bank Connecting sectors and systems for health results and published in 2012 – well before...
Muslims in west open their hearts to help poor, celebrate Ramazan in unique ways
Shariq Siddiqui | Many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims are experiencing the holy month of Ramadan differently this year – disrupted by social distancing...
A response to claim: COVID-19 will spread in Pakistan due to CPEC
US "deep state" operative Michael Rubin's recent fearmongering in "The National Interest" about how CPEC will supposedly facilitate the spread of COVID-19 throughout Pakistan...
Why does US want redundant India to play role in Afghanistan?
The two-hour stopover in Delhi on May 7 by the US special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, accompanied by the White House official in...
Iran accidently sacrifices Chabahar, Afghan border security takes precedence
The recent political crisis that exploded between Iran and Afghanistan after the former's security forces were accused of forcing over 50 of the latter's...
New world order: Why South Asia will lead ‘Great Game’
Even in these extremely uncertain coronavirus times, there is one thing that can be asserted with some measure of certainty: a new war, a...
COVID-19 offers opportunity to reclaim Quaid’s Pakistan
The financial budget of Pakistan consistently runs in a deficit (by some account close to a double-digit deficit), while periodic external account pressures invariably...
Pakistan: Absence of medical research, a setback against COVID-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare a reality. Medical research is supreme to medical practice. The pandemic has exposed two major fault lines...
What mothers of children with special needs experience
Mother’s day just went by and most of us wished our mothers and showed them how much we love them. Motherhood is not easy,...