Op-ed: Pakistan’s Missed Opportunities against India
The 1947-48 Kashmir war The historic plan of June 3, 1947 stipulated partition of the Indian subcontinent into two dominions on the principles of self-determination...
Op-ed: Should Quaid-e-Azam be really frustrated, or delighted, at his 144th birth anniversary?
Stanley Wolpert paid tribute to the Quaid in the following words, “Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Few still modify the map...
Will the Imran Khan Government Offer PDM a Grand National Dialogue?
Fahd Hussain, prominent television anchorperson and resident editor of Dawn in Islamabad, who also hosts his program, In Focus, on Dawn News Television, has...
PDM Lahore Jalsa: How big a threat for IK government?
The leaders of the PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement) have refused to back down from their tough statements and hardline narrative in recent days. They...
America-prompted revolutions: Lessons for the Muslim World
American Wars by Other Means The United States of America has been a world power for almost a century. This century saw the highest level...
Op-Ed: Demolition of Babri Mosque is an act of Hindu revenge
India is, constitutionally, a secular country. A Constitution is a fundamental law from which other laws emanate. But the Indian government and its courts...
US exit from Open Skies Treaty could unleash serious arms race
The United States’ exit from the Open Sky Treaty last month will aggravate already growing tensions between NATO and Russia-- and exacerbate the great...
Freemasons of Democracy should be disarmed
The Freemasons Hall on 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam stood on the main thoroughfare of Lahore as a symbol of secrecy and intrigue. No one knew what...
Changing tunes of politicians in the land of the pious and the pure
We always find that politicians keep changing their tunes. One said, “I will not hire this individual as a peon” but later changed to...
What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one
As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s...
Australian Military overlooked “Western Democracy” in a bid to expose Russia
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation appears to have colluded with the Australian Defence Ministry to launch an information warfare attack on Russia under the pretext...
Imran Khan’s Kabul visit lacked substance
Pakistan’s Prime Minister paid a day long visit-- his first as Prime Minister-- to Kabul on November 19. He held wide ranging talks with...