On istikharah
And the misconceptions surrounding it
The other day, Mufti Kifayatullah of JUI-F let it slip on live TV, during an altercation with anchor Yashfeen...
A holiday in other people’s misery
And why journalism needs a thorough overhaul the world over
I, like a million other journalists, enjoy my brief forays into other people’s misery....
Trump’s disgraceful letter to Erdoğan
The work of a mentally disturbed individual
There is no wonder that every person and news outlet that saw Trump’s letter to Turkey’s president...
Nobel Prize 2019 for innovative poverty economics
Academics qho have moved away from the neoliberal framework
Trickle-down economics did not really bear fruits towards either lowering income inequality or denting poverty,...
A hell of peace and prosperity
The suffering of the Kashmiri people goes on
Aljazeera portrayed the true picture of the present-day Indian-Held Kashmir in a report a few weeks...
A judicial test
The need for calm in a turbulent case
For the past few weeks, the Supreme Court remains huddled to deliberate upon the constitutional petitions...
Thwarting the ‘Azadi March’
By gagging the media?
As the deadline for Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s March fast approaches, battle lines are being clearly drawn. Despite Prime Minister Imran...
Where the problem resides
The old CSP wants to control the police
By Syed Usama Shirazi
Bureaucracy is the hand of any government. Without an efficient and effective bureaucracy,...
The dialectics of the baton charge
Candid Corner
False, fabricated and delusional narratives riding the waves
“Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own...
Tracing Pashtun ethno-nationalist trends
Kabul has historically been involved
The current sharpness in the ethno-nationalist trend in the Pashtun tribal belt of Pakistan is not new. The affiliation...
The business of tutoring
It’s an extra burden on students
By Fawad Ali
The mantra of Educational Reform has always been a part of our rhetorical political discourse. Much...
Dismal performance of CSS-2019 candidates
How academies entice prospective candidates
By Anwar Ali
The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) recently declared the result of the written portion of the examination...
Left hanging
Kurds are the latest victim of typical US abandonment
AT PENPOINT
The humanitarian tragedy of what amounts to the Turkish invasion of Syria may be...
Back to the future
We’re back to the appeasement of 1939
By: Arshad Mahmood
While addressing the United Nations, Prime Minister Imran Khan proclaimed that the world today is...
Is Turkey justified in attacking Kurd terrorists?
Turkey says it is not against Kurds
Conflicting reports are being carried by the media about Turkey and the Kurds. US President Donald Trump,...
PM Visit to China – way forward
The visit was about Kashmir too
By: Muhammad Sohail Ahmed
Upon assuming charge o, one year ago, the PTI leadership expressed its apprehensions about the...
Trump – Modi’s multibillion dollar embrace
Pakistan should have learnt from Houston
By: M Fazal Elahi
Wow what an embrace it was! None could deny that this profoundly warm embrace between...
