Another point of no return
The self-inflicted wound finally comes within reach of taking Pakistan’s life
What was so different about last week’s church bombings? Churches, mosques, imambargahs, shirnes, etc,...
‘Strong momentum in Pak-Afghan ties’
Pakistani Ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani on regional cooperation and the fight against terrorism
In this interview, His Excellency Jalil Abbas Jilani, Ambassador...
India, Israel behind Lahore lynching – agencies
Our Intelligence Correspondent - A thorough investigation into the Lahore lynching has revealed that Indian and Israeli intelligence agencies were behind the tragic incidents witnessed...
The fascist face of politics
Peace contingent on fighting ethnic, sectarian and religious terror
The March 11 Rangers raid on the MQM headquarters in Karachi and the recovery of wanted...
Soiled nappies
“We are genuine, pedigreed prostitutes. Today everyone has become a whore. Where do we go?”
Allama Iqbal said: “When Faith is divorced from politics only...
Challenges for Parliament
The system can be saved only if it is seen to be delivering
The political consensus that led to the unopposed election of the Chairman...
Grotesquery on full display
Such lows of moral degeneracy
Addressed in bold print to the Ayatollahs in Iran, a terse, begrudging letter recently made its way to the Islamic...
‘Iftikhar Ch’s ghost still rigging elections’
PPP does not need PML-N
Nadeem Afzal Gondal is fast emerging as one of the new senior faces of the Peoples Party. Co-chairman Zardari has...
PM unveils Nawaznomics, and Lahore-Karachi motorway
KARACHI -- Our ‘nomics Correspondent
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif treated Pakistanis to a development economics novelty while inaugurating the Lahore-Karachi motorway in the port city...
The Pakistan-India imbroglio
Strengthening and expanding the commonality of stakes is the way forward
The visit of the Indian foreign secretary, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to Pakistan after an excruciatingly...
The noisy hate-India fringe
It’s unrealistic
The anti-India fringe in Pakistan is as old as the country itself. However unlike its anti-Pakistan counterpart in India, the Pakistani variety has...
Aware of history or trapped by it?
What moving on means
“To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves” is how Mohsin Hamid, internationally renowned novelist, titled one of his essays a little over...
Pak-India relations
Time to think out of the box
Indian foreign secretary’s visit to Pakistan ended in no major breakthrough in bilateral relations between the two archrivals....
The ice breaker
Must be appreciated and built upon
Once Mr Modi was firm in the Delhi saddle and had his team in place Islamabad expected and quickly...
Kashmir gambit
What it will take
The elections in Jammu and Kashmir are over, and the new government, led by the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, is...
‘Talks haven’t worked yet’
An interview with Ambassador Ashraf Jahangir Qazi
We need to put our house in order
Much skepticism surrounded the Indian foreign secretary’s recent visit. New Delhi...
Suspense packed thriller
It’s not very often that Pakistani fiction extends to espionage, intelligence agencies, and the thrill of covert and proxy warfare; at least not in...
