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...