Question of Reputation: Why Nawaz not using same criteria he applied on PAS Officers?
Dr. Shahbaz Shabbir Gill | Not long ago, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif introduced the process of attrition in the promotions of civil services officers. Never...
Mother of All Bombs: nothing more than a mere theatrical act by the US?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The BBC’s first-hand report from the remote site in the southern Afghanistan province of Nangarhar where the US dropped the Mother...
Pope Francis’ visit to Egypt: an attempt to resolve differences between Muslims & Christians
James M. Dorsey | Billed as a bid to stimulate inter-faith dialogue, Pope Francis, on a visit to Egypt, is tiptoeing through a religious and...
Why dark-skinned women often pay a higher dowry?
Rina Chandran | Mirror, mirror on the wall; who is the fairest of them all? The one with the palest skin, of course. Or that's...
The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again…?
Najma Minhas| The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again, following the events of Saturday, 29th of April. The inquiry into the “Dawn Lies*”, at...
Aristotle’s God is not different from that of Islam or Christianity
Peter Adamson | If you were asked to name the most important philosopher of 10th-century Baghdad, you would presumably not hesitate to say ‘al-Farabi’. He’s...
Why women chess players don’t reach the top?
Here’s a story my father likes to tell. When I was five, my family spent several months living in Barbados. Since we were in...
Why DG ISPR’s Tweet saves the Army?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery| In a tweet, the Director General ISPR, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor termed the notification on Dawn Leaks as "incomplete" and not...
Turkish airstrikes in Syria: Has the US lost another Middle-Eastern ally?
Mehmet Ersoy | Turkey, which keeps targeting the U.S. allies, is up to pretend that it has taken one of the leading roles in the...
Will the PM leave with a “great fortune” or the burden of a “very great crime”?
Dr. Farid A. Malik | My late father was a habitual litigant. When I took over from where he had left in September 1991, there...
Social Media banned in Kashmir: Indian desperation to stop protests
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have blocked 22 social media applications including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. An official state circular was issued on Wednesday, April 26 which stated that...
Indian Muslim Women suffering because of abuse of Islamic Law
Rina Chandran | Lucknow, India - Shabana was 18 years old when she was married to a man 15 years her senior, in the northern...