Has Imran Khan forgotten PAT and the Model Town massacre victims?

PM Imran Khan, I am writing this to remind you of an old promise that you might have forgotten about after assuming the state's...

Middle East problems amplified by coronavirus

A second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is raising its ugly head. It is putting Middle East leaders at a crossroads as they struggle...

Indo-China tensions: excellent opportunity for Pakistan to cash in?

We have always missed opportune moments to resolve the Kashmir dispute. In the 1962 India/China war, we should have attacked or at least moved...

From Chiniot to Harvard; the story of a boy from Pakistan

From matriculation in Chiniot and a Bachelors degree in Karachi to Harvard University in USA; my journey has had me attend top institutes in...

Repercussions of tensions between India and China for Asia

The uprising of Ladakh in 1959 had transformed into a full-fledged war between China and India in 1962. It resulted in a rather unfavourable...

What makes ICC investigation of US war crimes in Afghanistan highly sensitive

Britain has joined France and Germany to break with the United States over President Trump’s Executive Order on June 11 authorising economic sanctions against...

Pakistan’s governance structure notorious for delayed decision making

Delaying of decisions to defy needed change is fatal for any country. A well-known proverb says ‘Never put off till tomorrow what you can...

How to help rural Pakistan’s women amid Covid-19

With COVID-19 wreaking havoc to the economic, social and political fabric of societies worldwide, the gendered impact of the outbreak is being debated by...

Achilles heel for PTI: The foreign funding case

Seventy is the number of times the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has met, so far, in the PTI-foreign funding case. Make...

America faces not one but two pandemics

America is being ravaged by not one, but two, pandemics and both have a lot in common. Both are invisible, equally widespread, mutate in response...

Tracing the roots of Hindutva & Modi’s BJP party

Modi is not wrong in heralding the spectre of Akhund Bharat, currently resting in the Reich of Hindutva. He is not wrong in fancying...

The rocky road of US-Taliban peace agreement

It took the Trump administration 17 months to clinch a preliminary agreement with the Taliban – a first step toward ending more than 18...
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