Murder of an ordinary man with extraordinary political significanceÂ
Shiffa Yousafzai | Just when we had started to feel that law and order situation has improved in the country in general and in KPK in...
BLF leaders’ wife arrested from Chaman: Why is it significant?
News Analysis | Law-enforcement agencies in Balochistan have arrested three women from Chaman, claiming that they belong to banned outfits. Reports assert that one of...
The CIA’s new anti-Taliban strategy might help Daesh
Andrew Korybko | The New York Times reported over the weekend that the CIA would be redirecting most of its Afghan efforts towards directly thwarting...
Thank you Najam Sethi!
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Former Kiwi fast-bowler and currently one of the darlings of cricket watchers, Danny Morrison was shouting, chirping and "revving it...
Our real intellectual crisis is not that we are failing to produce Einsteins
Dr. S. Zulfiqar Gilani | Discerning people agree that we have an intellectual crisis in the country. However, write-ups on the crisis are largely descriptive...
London Plan: PML-N rejects minus Nawaz formula as Nisar lambastes party
News Analysis | The top PML-N leadership, yesterday, rejected ‘minus-Nawaz’ formula for the ruling party and warned they would not accept any unconstitutional step in...
Pakistan trying to crack a fresh helicopter deal with the US!
News analysis| Pakistan is trying to crack a new deal to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters to carry out anti-narcotics operations in FATA and Balochistan....
Nawaz Sharif – The unacceptable face of our politics
Mudassir Saeed Laghari | How did we reach the point where the former prime minister is spewing hatred and contempt against the superior judiciary and...
Rescue of Coleman-Boyle family: Myth of ‘good & bad Taliban’ rebuffed
Jamal Hussain | The liberation of the Canadian/American couple and their three children from the clutches of Haqqani groups by Pakistan military made headline breaking...
Nawaz & lieutenants discuss ‘future’; Where: London?
News Analysis | Senior leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) including Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has arrived in London for an important meeting....
I persuaded Benazir Bhutto against returning to Pakistan: friend
News Desk | Desmond de Silva, an old friend of former prime minister, the late Benazir Bhutto has revealed how he implored her not to...
South Asia must heed the lessons from history!
Salman Bashir | President Donald Trump's 'Regional Strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia' is a theoretical construct centred on Afghanistan, but in the light of...