Impending threat to intra-Afghan peace talks
The talks between the Taliban and Afghan government have been formally launched in Doha on September 12. Ending the 40-year-long conflict is a dream...
Gulf-Israel Accord: The Kings Have No Clothes
In a solemn ceremony at the White House today, President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of UAE and...
Op-ed: Understanding the eighteenth amendment
Collectively drafted by the parliament in 2010, following two years of considerations by a parliamentary advisory committee, the eighteenth Amendment essentially redesigned the 1973...
Is Trump the frenemy of the Islamic world?
In the Republican primaries of the 2016 US presidential elections, Mitt Romney severely castigated Trump, calling him a phony and a fraud. When Trump...
Tackling rape: Our national habit is to weep after every tragedy
Another rape case, another uproar in the media - but the fact of the matter is that this is not the first case and...
Op-ed: Saudi gestures signal kingdom’s endorsement of Arab rapprochement with Israel
The odds are that Saudi Arabia is not about to formalize relations with Israel. But the kingdom, with its image tarnished by multiple missteps,...
Op-ed: Impacts of CPEC on Asian region and beyond
The comprehensive development deal between Pakistan and China (CPEC) not only creates strategic and economic connectivity between these two countries but also has the potential...
Rape victims don’t lose honour, the rapists do! – Maleeha Hashmey
It is not the one who is “wronged” who loses their honour, but the one who “wrongs” is the one who loses it forever!...
US: The nexus between generals and military industrial complex
As Taliban and Kabul government negotiators undergo the compulsory week long Covid-19 induced quarantine, a couple of developments ahead of the impending intra-Afghan negotiations...
China has humiliated India on the Ladakh border by acquiring Indian territory
India was hoping that something positive would come out from the talks between the Foreign Ministers of India and China at Mosco on September...
Of shattered dreams and life-long trauma: Impact of motorway incident
Motorways are thought to be the best and secure means of communication in changing modern civilizations. With change in world dynamics, motorways have come...
Motorway incident reveals years of injustice
There is no way to put into words the grief, horror and anger that people of Pakistan feel at the indescribable rape of a...