Devolution of Power: Must for Pakistan?
Abdul Rasool Syed | "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and...
Modern Policing in Baluchistan: A continuing challenge?
Akhlaq Ullah Tarar | Policing in Baluchistan has seen many moons; various experiments have shaped up the present structure. A chronological study reveals the journey...
The unplanned cities of Pakistan: A problem without solution
Dr Zafar Khan Safdar | Pakistan is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in South Asia and the share of the urban population has risen...
Rethinking the education paradigm – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | In matters of State and politics, the ‘urgent’ has an uncanny ability to crowd out the ‘important’. Stuck in the urgency of...
Platinum Birthday felicitations Tariq Ali – Saud Bin Ahsen
Saud Bin Ahsen | The sun rises later and later now, and I, who only a month ago could sit with latte every morning watching...
Will Conflict with Iran help bail MBS out of his troubles? – James M Dorsey
James M Dorsey | Embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could prove to be not only a cat with nine lives but also one...
Pakistan needs to welcome Science!
Farah Adeed | Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher, and a prolific writer wrote a very interesting book in 1952, titled The Impact of Science on...
A gruesome murder bares world powers’ flawed policies
James M Dorsey | Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder raises fundamental questions that go far beyond Middle Eastern geopolitics. They go to the risks...
Will Imran Khan bring much-promised change – Farid A Malik
Farid A Malik | ‘Old habits die hard’ is an age old saying. Adult changes are almost impossible as it involves a lot of unlearning....
US squeezing Iran: Difficult choices for Pakistan?
Najmuddin A. Shaikh | The EU, France, Germany, China, and Russia; signatories of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and the IAEA, which...
Is Pakistan a free country?
Dawood Ghazanavi | The month of October marks the 17th anniversary of the US-led war in Afghanistan. It is the longest in American history. In...
‘More to do’ is the new ‘do more’
Imran Jan | General Joseph Votel, Commander of the US Central Command, said of Pakistan, “I do acknowledge that they have done a lot in...