The lessons of history

December the 16th is the darkest day in the history of Pakistan when the country was dismembered that witnessed a surrender by the Pakistan...

Chanakya’s Mandala theory and Indian foreign policy

How Indians go back to Chanakya  Indian mandarins who formulate and execute its external affairs, are obsessed with Chanakya’s “Mandala Theory”. A mandala is...

When it comes to Af-Pak relations – hold the door

They say good fences make good neighbours   One wonders if the Durand Line’s creator merely swiped a pen across a map, announced: “There! That’s done!”...

PPP’s albatross

The party’s downhill ride While the official text of the Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO) yet to be made publicly, it has already become...

Methods of legislation

At Penpoint   The GIDC mess here, and the UK’s dissolution woes, don’t show the parliamentary system at its best   The problems of parliamentary democracy were...

Auto festival

Recently, I went to Lahore for a few days to visit my in-laws there. While there, I had a chance to visit the Expo...

Health policy reforms 

The right way  Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity....

TTA’s parallel government in Afghanistan

Pakistan must “keep its cool” in the days to come   The Taliban, who emerged as a major force in Afghanistan, during the raging civil war...

Pot calling the kettle black?

The Koh-i-Noor isn’t coming here any time soon   Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has demanded that Britain should apologise for the 1919 Jalianwala Bagh massacre,...

A good omen

PML-N in a cooperative mood According to media reports, PML-N government and the opposition party PPP have agreed on the name of Justice (retd) Rana...

Iran’s Nuclear Installations

Tel Aviv and Washington have agreed in principle to teach a befitting lesson to Iran by attacking its nuclear installations. However, Israel is not...

When home is Hell

Everywhere and anywhere else is Eden waiting with open arms, armed coastal guards and barbed wires For some home is not the place...

Charsadda blast

Being an agrarian country, Pakistan was never short of food until recent times. Various reasons are responsible for the current and predicted acute food shortage and terrorism is one of them. It will be appropriate if we as a nation open up our eyes and fight the menace of terrorism that will prevent from attacks such as the one that took place in Charsadda and injured many. This blast not only injured many but also took place near a school where children under the age of ten were

Let the games begin

The long wait for the cricket enthusiasts in Lahore and elsewhere throughout the country is over and they are now going to see lot...

Peace in Afghanistan has to be Pakistan’s priority

Mainstreaming Afghan Taliban Once again there is a brave effort by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to hold a second Kabul Process Conference in the...

Trump’s embrace of white supremacy

How he is poisoning the USA’s soul   Within 13 hours, two mass shooting took place— in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio— killing 31...