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TERROR has struck with renewed ferocity, reminding us yet again of the wages of appeasement. The suicide bombing that killed and wounded scores of...
JUST a year ago, the party looked indomitable. That is no more the case. The party of the Sharifs, which dominated the country’s political scene for...
https://arab.news/98mwv With the dissolution of assemblies in two major provinces and one third of the national assembly seats now vacant in...
THE Punjab Assembly has finally been dissolved and the KP Assembly is the next to go. The development has set in motion the process of elections in...
THE spectacle of desperate men and women thronging the shops for subsidised flour provides just one glimpse of the worsening level of privation. A...
https://arab.news/y4tu3 The simmering tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime seem to be fast spilling over into an open...
THERE was nothing in the communiqué issued after the latest National Security Committee meeting that we have not heard before. Phrases like ‘zero...
IT has been a year that one would like to forget. It has been a year of political turmoil, worsening economic crises and the return of terrorism. The...
https://arab.news/8eent The latest wave of terrorism has now struck the nation’s capital, highlighting the resurgence of the outlawed militant...
THE events of the past week present a theatre of the absurd. Hours after Imran Khan announced his long-awaited decision to dissolve the Punjab...
IF there were any illusions about Pakistan having secured peace on its western frontier after the Afghan Taliban’s return to power last August, they...
https://arab.news/6kvfw The assassin’s bullet may not have hit the envoy, but the firing incident at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul was a grim...
THE attack on the Pakistan embassy in Kabul last week raises questions about the Taliban administration’s capacity and resolve to fight terrorist...
IMRAN Khan’s latest change of tack has caught his opponents by surprise. For months, the federal government had braced itself for a siege, and was...
https://arab.news/66a6y The finale of a messy process has surprisingly been smooth. After weeks of speculation, the prime minister has picked...
THE change of guard had never been so messy. What should have been a routine matter has turned into a high-stakes political game of chicken. The new...
THE frequent trips of the prime minister to London for consultation with his elder brother demonstrate where the real power lies. They have reinforced...
https://arab.news/wyufn After escaping an assassination attempt, Imran Khan has resumed what he calls the “freedom march” to Islamabad. The...
WHAT happened in Wazirabad last week was perhaps a story foretold. The gun attack on Imran Khan has pushed the country deeper into anarchy. The...
THE battle lines have now been clearly drawn. Apparently undeterred by the security establishment’s frontal attack, Imran Khan is marching on the...
https://arab.news/9tp9g The mysterious death of a leading TV anchor in a police shootout in Kenya has turned into an explosive political issue in...
IT has come as a huge relief for Pakistan that it has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) ‘grey list’ after four years of...
IT is yet another emphatic electoral victory for the PTI. The latest series of by-elections marked the rout of the ruling coalition across the...
https://arab.news/rd647 There has been a marked rise in cross-border militant attacks in the former tribal regions after the return of Taliban rule...
WITH just weeks left for him to doff his uniform, COAS Gen Qamar Bajwa has assured the nation that the armed forces have distanced themselves from...
IT appears to be a systemic collapse of the state institutions as never before. A series of audio leaks involving the conversations of the country’s...
https://arab.news/m3bce There are some tangible signs of a thaw in US-Pakistan relations after recent contacts between the two countries at a senior...
IN yet another interesting twist in the ongoing political soap opera, Ishaq Dar is back, picking up from where he left off some five years ago. The...
TALKING to the media outside the Islamabad High Court recently, Imran Khan said he would get more dangerous. He has lived up to his words, turning...
THE Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit is being held this week in Samarkand against the backdrop of a geopolitical upheaval challenging...
https://arab.news/86pyu With more than 33 million people displaced by the catastrophic floods and their livelihoods lost, Pakistan’s needs massive...
PREDICTABLY, Imran Khan’s latest remarks on the issue of the appointment of the new army chief have provoked an intense reaction from both the...
THE IMF deal has finally come through after months of hard negotiations providing major relief to a teetering economy. But while the release of the...
https://arab.news/2afmd There are horrific scenes of the destruction across Pakistan that has left millions of people homeless and without...
NOTHING could be more surreal than watching political leaders engaged in a sordid game of thrones while a large part of the country is devastated by...
IT was yet another massive show of political strength by the ousted prime minister in Lahore last week. The triumph in the recent by-elections and...
https://arab.news/pwrxd The militants are back in Swat valley more than a decade after they were driven out from the region by the Pakistan...
IT is a year since the Taliban stormed Kabul to retake control of Afghanistan some two decades after the conservative Islamic regime was routed by...
THE long-awaited verdict in the PTI foreign funding case is a damning indictment of a party that claims to base its politics on the rule of law. There...
https://arab.news/z85zx Facing the looming threat of an economic meltdown, Pakistan seeks America’s help for a bailout. The relations between the...
IN an unprecedented move, the ruling coalition on Monday decided to boycott the proceedings of the apex court expressing “lack of confidence” in...
PREDICTABLY, the outcome of the Punjab by-elections has changed the course of the country’s politics. The PTI’s triumph has cleared the way for...