Dr. Hussain Nadim argues that the political blame game played by the Afghanistan government is to deflect from its own administrative failures and incompetencies. He maintained that Pakistan has only helped its neighbor at the time of turmoil. The piece was originally published by the Lowy Institute and is republished here with the author's consent.
The Pentagon has talked about establishing some sort of military base in the region to monitor terrorist activity within Afghanistan. It says this presence...
On May 5, 2021, the highly symbolic Kashmiri freedom leader, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Chairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), died of COVID-19 while...
Crime, in the modern-day, has evolved to become more sophisticated and less traceable. Therefore, a corresponding shift needs to take place in the prosecutorial and judicial application of relevant law. And in this process, a rethinking of the sanctity that our criminal justice system affords to the FIR is perhaps the first step.
Mr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an Islamabad-based physicist and writer, published a piece in Dawn on 31 July titled “Who messed up Afghanistan?” He posits that...
Commissioner Gujranwala, the great pet lover, lost his pedigreed German Shepherd dog. As the loss was unstainable, he decided to launch a street search....
Boasting an almost 1,000-kilometer border with Iran and a history of troubled relations between the Iranians and Sunni Muslim militants, including the Taliban, Afghanistan...