How India stokes insurgencies in neighbours

Confessions of former RAW officers and diplomats One is shocked to read accounts of former diplomats and RAW officers about executing insurgencies in neighbouring...

Defence Day of Pakistan—new challenges

Indian actions in Kashmir make this Defence Day doubly important September 6th is celebrated by the nation as the Defence Day of Pakistan to...

Why did the axe fall on Pakistani doctors?

The PM&DC reconstitution was flawed By: Dr Amjad Mehmood The crisis is not settling. In the beginning of August, led by Saudi Arabia, certain Gulf...

Safe and decent workspaces for woman lawyers

The increasing number of women lawyers makes old attitudes outdated By: Zainab Zafar After attending a seminar on Women in Law in Pakistan and listening...

How to hit back at India

We must never forget Ghulam Qadir Rohilla Amidst all the deeds of Mughals, Pathans and Rohillas in the Subcontinent, two characters have stood out...

Hanging one’s head in shame

Brining back the doctrine of necessity It was an all-out attack. The video was out. The NAB Court's Judge, Muhammad Arshad Malik, who convicted...

State economy defines foreign policy

A stable economy is needed to practice modern day diplomacy For over four decades Pakistan was bogged with illogical concept of seeking Strategic Depth...

The threat is real

How the RSS rose to power Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing the nation during Kashmir Hour on Friday and later speaking to Islamic...

How not to approach the Kashmir issue

An unpopular opinion The heart goes out to the residents of Indian Occupied Kashmir, for their dark night may just have gotten a whole...

Mankind: A tragicomedy 

The march of humanity continues amidst laughs and sobs  Man, as understood by Protagoras, is the measure of all things. But alas, most of...

Ban the RSS

Before it is too late In countries with constitutional democracy quasi-military organizations like RSS should not exist. In the West most white supremacist organizations...

PTV and economic development

The government needs to use it to further national aims   The PM rightly emphasises the Scandinavian model of development in his speeches. This is...

Re-evaluating Kashmir in Rishi Kashyap’s land

An Indian take   Suddenly narratives over Kashmir have changed for both India and Pakistan where New Delhi extended its horizon up to Azad Kashmir...

‘Har Din Karbala’

The Imam’s Karbala was only the first   As the Muharram moon unveils itself, it brings with it the memory of the sacrifice made 1400...

The relevance of rushd

Reforms are needed to stop the scourge of child marriage   By Ramsha Shahid   On 21 August 2019; the Senate Standing Committee on Law and...

Kashmir future?

Is this a new beginning for a stagnant freedom movement?   By Emran Naseem   Article 370 in the Indian Constitution has been abolished, that gives a...

Reform process and the skeletons within

Candid Corner   Looking for gold among heaps of sand, pebbles and dross   “It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth,...