Op-ed: Looking back at Salman Taseer’s killing

As if driven by intuition, only a few days before Mumtaz Qadri gunned him down at Kohsar Market in the heart of the federal...

PML-N’s ‘Jaag Punjab’ slogan shouldn’t be taken lightly

The Freemasons Hall of Democracy located on 33 Davis Road Lahore has produced many marvels to detract the democratic order in the country, the...

Op-ed: Pakistani politics may be more banal than its analysts make it out to be

Authors: Marzia Raza and Muhammad Salman   Aqil Shah’s latest piece in Foreign Affairs twists publicly available information on Pakistan’s recent political history and civil-military relations...

Nawaz-Maryam & Zulfikar-Benazir father daughter duos compared

In November 1967 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) launched his PPP in Lahore. During his mistrial he had wished to be buried here as he...

Op-ed: Pakistan has made its way in the world through cooperation, not dependance

The next four years define our foreign policy and our place in the world. Pakistan has also been able to balance between world powers...

Will positioning powerful Turkish military as backbone of regional strategy secure Turkey’s place in new world order?

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new year, pledging to employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world...

Op-ed: Pakistan needs to declare national emergency on the development of its youth

This tale dates back to 1971 when a South-Asian country got independence from another South-Asian country. At the time of independence, she was regarded...

Op-ed: Is the OIC really doing its job?

On 21 August 1969, an Australian-born Christian Dennis Michael Rohan attempted to set fire to the Ancient Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The fire destroyed...

Op-ed: How India stifles dissent in the illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir State?

Not only the Kashmiris but also the Indians were surprised to learn that their valorous army had resumed fake encounters to terrify the Kashmiris...

As the year of snakes, ladders and virus exposing buffoons ends, welcome 2021

2020 has ended, at least by the Gregorian calendar. As always, we are fooled by the time buffoons. Hope springs eternal. This turn of...

Indonesia potentially set to take on China and claim leadership of ‘moderate’ Islam

President Joko Widodo’s recent cabinet reshuffle suggests that Indonesia may adopt a more critical attitude towards China and reinforce government support for efforts by Nahdlatul Ulama...

Op-ed: Pakistan’s has concerns over the growing strategic ties of US India

In the post-cold war era, the USA emerged as a superpower and dominated international affairs. After almost two decades the economic rise of China...
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