ISIS making its way in Pakistan
How real is the threat?
ISIS uses its ideology to recruit people and make them commit ‘suicide’ and kill ‘infidels’ to safeguard its ideology...
The unbreakable Nighat Dad
Her awards – thought plentiful – don’t define her, but her spirit does
Dad had a degree but no license to practice. Once she...
Trump’s Election: Farwell, the old US-Pak relationship
A new direction?
The status-quo is no more. Pakistan-US relationship has been one wobbly affair marred by extreme highs and lows over the years
It’s over....
Trump presidency and its impact on Pakistan
Not very heartening expectations
Today, after the sunset years of the Obama administration has thrown up an America in deep global retreat and internal political...
Donald Trump: a con man or genius?
Time for talk to turn into action
During the election campaign, Trump has assaulted his country’s approach on the foreign policy front, targeting the US’s...
Silent majority
And what it shouted out loud
A Trump presidency now certainly means uncertainty at least for quite some time till Trump assumes presidency
I remember reading...
Media Watch:A million mutinies now
Why are all the newspaper front pages the same, asked a friend once. The same set of news items, more or less. Well, it’s...
Chowk Wazir Khan
Cultural revival of Lahore
Masjid Wazir Khan was built in 1634 AD under orders of Hakim Ilm ud Din the then prime minister of 5th...
In Islamabad, funeral of National Action Plan held
Govt gives free hand to banned terror outfits while stopping PTI protest
Leaders of the proscribed outfit criticised PTI chairman Imran Khan for creating ‘disturbance’...
“Pakistan could have faced Martial Law”: Interview with Jamaat e Islami chief Siraj-ul-Haq
Had the SC not intervened
The intervention of apex court is a positive step and there is hope that the SC will not give...
Media Watch: Lakhkar Khan and the Supreme Court
Though he might be a Mardan boy with Mohmand Agency origins, Saleem Safi’s dry wit and devastating use of wry understatement have something quite...
Media Watch: Haha, lighter side of fascism
Now that the Islamabad lockdown is behind us, it would do us good to look at one particular incident that dealt with the media...
The city of fresco — Lahore!
One of its great wonders
Fresco is an interesting trait found in most of the historic building of Mughal and Sikh era, whereas we do...
Media Watch: Party workers, wanted dead and alive
There is a mad rush about being the first to report a news item and a crippling fear of missing a particular news item...
Quantify, Quantify, Quantify
And the results: end to Nawaz Sharif’s reign or an end to Imran Khan’s demands?
Imran Khan said that the hearing has been beneficial and...
Judicial activism or adventurism?
-From pliant to powerful judiciary-
The Supreme court of Pakistan exercises complete power to form a commission under the Article 183 and 187 of the...
Let’s agree to disagree
Supreme Court to settle the PTI, PML-N ToRs conflict
The stakeholders in the case were asked to submit their responses but Nawaz Sharif’s children who...
