From control to facilitation – Farid A Malik

Dr. Farid A Malik | Institutional cultures are almost impossible to change. Institutions designed for control cannot deliver facilitation. There are only four countries (Pakistan,...

Military courts and hypocrisy of politicians – Ikram Sehgal

Ikram Sehgal | Military courts were established in 2015 during the Nawaz Sharif regime in the aftermath of Army Public School (APS) massacre of 140...

Enemy at the gates

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar | This neither is about cold-blooded killing of a family in Sahiwal, nor concerning forced-disappearance of fellow-citizens by state authorities. Neither...

Decline of the ideas industry – Farid A Malik

Dr. Farid A Malik | There is a worldwide decline in the ‘ideas industry’. No one is thinking about the present and future of mankind....

Extension of military courts – Saad Rasool

Saad Rasool | The tenure of ‘military courts’ is coming to an expiry, on 30th March 2019. And Pakistan is once again confronted with the...

Piecing together Pakistan’s education puzzle

Maha Dania Qazi | If we wish to accomplish progress in the education sector a major part of the effort should be to make teacher...

Myth of military business

Humayun Raja | Few months back, former honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar had asked DHA authorities that which army in the world...

Indian first strike option

 Air Cdre Jamal Hussain | Ever since Pakistan achieved strategic parity in the military balance of power with India following the nuclearization of the two...

Netanyahu-Modi duo: A lethal combination

Abdul Rasool Syed | Modi’s visit to Israel on 4th July 2017 hit the headlines of national and international newspapers. It was the historic step...

Brexit and its fallout effects

Asif Haroon Raja | On June 23, 2016, the majority of the British citizens voted in favor of Brexit believing that migrants are eating away...

Social media: Pakistan’s new challenge?

Asif Haroon Raja | When I was serving as Director Psychological Operations (Psy Ops) in GHQ way back in the early 1990s, I had the...

Can Iran help reach a lasting peace in Afghanistan?

Fatemeh Aman | Progress has been reported in peace talks between US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban, but without the participation of the Afghan government, it seems...