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The recent statement by the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, asserting that no terrorism is emanating from Afghanistan and that dialogue alone...
My first stay in Islamabad was many decades back, when, as a young school student, I came here to attend the World Scout Jamboree. It was mid 70s,...
Trump was elected to the presidency because the American people were sick and tired of their inability to pay their bills and watch inflation go...
During the very first week of this year, on January 3, the US conducted Operation 'Absolute Resolve' to kidnap President Maduro of Venezuela, along...
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab's newly announced plan to dismantle the city's notorious "tanker mafia" and phase out the city's flailing hydrant-based...
The recent cutting of thousands of trees in Islamabad has ignited a public outcry that the government would be unwise to dismiss as mere...
The decision to screen travellers to the UAE at Pakistani airports is a welcome move. The pre-immigration clearance system, to be set up shortly in...
The situation in Iran is getting worse by the day. The economic crunch that led to the ongoing uprising after the tumultuous fall of the Iranian...
Artificial Intelligence has taken center stage in today's world. It is now deeply embedded across the modern workforce, powering virtual...
Unrivalled advancements in technology have transformed rare earth elements (REEs) into a strategic tool not only to produce high-tech defence...
The Aziz Brohi Goth area in Karachi's Manghopir witnessed insurmountable cruelty in the past days when a madrassa teacher reportedly assaulted a...
What truly holds a society back? Is it poverty, illiteracy, corruption or bad governance? While these are serious issues, they are often symptoms,...
Recalling John Locke's thought experiment of 'Locked Room', imagine a person is sitting in a room with a friend. Unknown to him is that the room is...
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister wants evidence of something that is visible to the whole world. Sohail Afridi wants the state of Pakistan to...
Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan...
Privatisation in Pakistan has rarely been a deliberate or well-planned economic reform. More often, it emerges as a reluctant response to years of...
Pakistan's centralised governance system has bred discontent. From the tales of One Unit to four federating units, the populace has longed for...
PTI is not a fringe group. It is a mass political party with electoral mandates in provinces and millions of supporters across the country. And in...
At a restaurant in southern Poland, last week, I met a Pakistani server. He had been in Poland for a year. This young man defied many of the...
A harrowing incident recently brought Islamabad to a standstill when an alleged gas cylinder explosion killed a newly married couple who were still...
Pakistan today stands at a defining crossroads. Across politics, governance, business and civil society, ambition is abundant, talent is visible...
Israel's decision to recognise Somaliland as an independent state is a calculated political act that threatens to destabilise an already fragile...
The refusal of Kabul to take action against terrorist outfits operating from Afghanistan and behave like a responsible member of the comity of...
In a meme circulating on social media, President Donald Trump is shown delivering his message for the New Year: "peace on earth." The punchline...
The question posed in the title of this essay can only be answered speculatively. In doing so I will speculate about the world Pakistan will find...
Donald Trump's kidnapping of Venezuela's president, a la Tamil movie, adds exponentially to the uncertainty of world politics. The precedent will...
My beloved Peshawar! What was once proudly called the City of Flowers now lives like a city under siege. From time to time, the air reverberates...
As the anti-encroachment drive continues relentlessly in the chaos of Karachi, businesses in parts of the busy Saddar Bazaar stood suspended for...
There is a situation in Iran, and it warrants a political solution. Protesters seem to be losing their patience. Well, the government too. Thus,...
Deaths from hits by heavy vehicles continue to occur in Karachi, with a young female motorcyclist and a seven-year-old boy being the latest...
Every now and then, we come across pragmatic speeches, columns and academic discourses — not necessarily from the beneficiaries of the system —...
The Monroe Doctrine was all about the protection of American interests in the Western Hemisphere. It was about not allowing any distant power to...
Over decades, IR scholarship saw outer space as a kind of sanctuary, a global commons ruled by the high-minded, but vague, ideals of the 1967 Outer...
Everyone is talking about talks, but no one wants to talk. The glaring contradiction measures the difference between optics and hard reality....
Few indicators capture the depth of Pakistan's fiscal malaise as starkly as the performance of its state-owned enterprises. The latest figures...
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