Can IMF please provide the debt relief any quicker?

The Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, recently made a statement in the meeting G20 finance ministers and central...

Covid-19 offers unique opportunity for peace in Afghanistan

Maryyum Masood and Sabeen Malik | Covid-19 has shocked the world by severely affecting the global economy and directing the attention of the world towards...

Covid-19: Keep this in mind before easing the lockdown

As the government is moving from lockdown to easing restrictions on businesses and allowing some normalcy, we must remember, Pakistan is not out of...

Actual defence budget of ‘deceptive’ India

India’s Union Budget for the financial year 2020-21 envisages a total outlay of Rs. 30,42,230 crore. Out of this, 3,37,553 crore has been allocated...

Pakistani Religious Zealots’ obsession with Ahmadis: a non-issue in 2020

If Jacqueline Kennedy was travelling on Pakistan International Airlines today, as she did in 1962, she most certainly would not have ended her trip...

First time in history: Permission of public azan in Canadian city sparks debate

Mississauga, a name most in Pakistan are probably familiar with, is currently embroiled in a steaming debate over the city administration’s decision to allow...

US religious freedom report; future of Muslims in India

On 28th April, the USCIRF (US Commission on International Religious Freedom) annual report on religious freedom was released. Interestingly, despite India’s close ties with the...

NRO style deal for Malik Riaz to stimulate economy

Millions of people have lost their jobs and more will still lose, the pandemic is not only taking lives but aggravating the economic crisis....

Pakistan’s bureaucracy needs overhaul

On August 14,1973 Pakistan attained the status of a constitutional democracy. It should have been the end of the colonial era based on the...

Doctors for total lockdown ignoring repercussions

Should medical doctors be solely entrusted to determine the higher policy of the state on how to defeat the coronavirus pandemic? Medical doctors risk...

‘Only the danda can fix this nation’

Covid-19 has turned the collective gaze of society inwards in more ways than one. Families in the subcontinent and world over have begun to...

The day Hitler lost the Second World War

Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with...
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