Trump’s Middle East peace plan: Deceit of the century?

Opinion | Earlier this week, from the East Room of the White House, President Donald J. Trump, accompanied by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

Pakistan’s youth remain intellectual cannon-fodder

Opinion | As these words are being written, scores of well-meaning but largely self-deluded political hocks are being wrongfully arrested and carted off to face...

State Bank’s monetary policy: A haunting future for Pakistan?

Opinion | There we have it again. Interest rate or the discount rate has been retained at 13.25% for another two months. Ignoring calls from...

Resurrection of political mafia

Without completely weeding out of the “political mafias,” the future of Pakistan will remain bleak. The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), in its historic judgment...

Protesters push Arab militaries off their pedestal

Opinion | Long gone are the days when protesters on Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanted “the military and the people are one.” In 2011 it was the...

NAB: A rejuvenated agency facing propaganda warfare

Opinion | The country’s apex anti-graft watchdog National accountability bureau (NAB) is often subjected to unfounded stricture by those people against whom it takes action...

Imran Khan Govt: Fighting Bravely on the Economic Front!

Most observers of Pakistani scene readily agree that Khan’s government has engaged the world and turned around country’s foreign policy. But most fail to...

Rohingya: The most persecuted minority in the world

The Rohingya have been named “the most persecuted minority in the world” by the United Nations, following a wave of atrocities unseen since genocides...

Hypocrisy of Modi’s Secular India

With a population of about 1.4 billion of which about 80% of Indians are Hindus, 14% Muslim and 2% Christian, 4% follow other religions....

Foreign Master Unhappy Over Manzoor Pashteen’s Arrest

Manzoor Mehsud, hailing from humble background in South Waziristan (SW), was an unknown figure till the killing of Naqibullah Mehsud in January 2018 at...

75 years ago: Hitler’s operations that killed millions

Opinion | It is often thought that the Third Reich's final major offensive of World War II comprised the Battle of the Bulge, which was...

Russia stood by Iran in showdown with US

The US President Donald Trump first said there were ‘no casualties’ in the Iranian missile attack on the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Iraq...