When home is the mouth of a shark
Will Kashmir keep on burning to cinders and keep on gathering its ashes?
Evil has once again returned to the valley. Heaven on...
Kashmir: India’s last card
Time now for a workable peaceful solution
The Prime Minister (PM) is right in saying that by invoking Article 370 of which 35A is...
Kashmir at the UNSC after 50 years
The Kashmiri people must be made a party
“The position of the United Nations on this region is governed by the Charter of...
Stocktaking of crucial reforms
Reforms are need to implement the IMF agreement
When the current government took office around a year ago, it vociferously launched many committees for...
Kashmir bleeds again
The West did not stop India, but then, Pakistan did not do enough
For 70 years, the people of the valley of Kashmir have...
Kashmir at UNSC
Victory of sorts?
Recent events taking place around Pakistan have suddenly catapulted the one-year-old PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) government to centre stage, thereby putting Prime...
UNSC on Kashmir: Possible outcome and Pakistan’s contingency strategy?
Playing out a zero-sum game
The UNSC meeting on Kashmir is governed under by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) provisional rules (United Nations...
Rising from the ashes
Candid Corner
Let’s get our freedom back – and the option to choose our friends
“Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just...
What is wrong with Pakistani doctors?
How medical researchers skimp
By Dr Amjad Mehmood
In Pakistan, research is a word reviled in society and the same is its relevance in scientific...
Making a comeback after the fall
Failure isn’t the end of the world
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same…
—Rudyard Kipling,...
What is happening in Hong Kong?
Foreign powers must stop interfering
Hong Kong is well-known to the world. It is not only an important international financial, trade, shipping hub and...
The struggle takes a new turn
There may be more ahead
AT PENPOINT
The only people who would be made happy by the abrogation of the special status Jammu and Kashmir...
Wasting a rare opportunity
The accountability mania destroyed business confidence
By: Usman Masood
"It gets worse before it gets better." Ask a historian and they will give ample evidence...
Terrorists’ propaganda on Jihad
Beware of the Khawarij
Islam is a religion of peace since it teaches us to live humanely with communities of all other religions. Unfortunately,...
Pacifist Jinnah vs. pugnacious Nehru, Patel
The protector general of minorities
The 1916 Lucknow Pact was acknowledged as a pillar of Hindu-Muslim friendship. However, Motilal Nehru, at the behest of...
Institutes on rise; performance in decline
By: Rameez A Mahesar
According to the statistics of universities’ list issued by Edarabia, the Middle East’s number one guide, there are 188 HEC-recognized educational...
Forgettable candidates and irritating format
US democrat presidential debates
I've just returned from Detroit, Michigan, where I attended the second set of Democratic Party presidential primary debates. For many...
