Justice Jawad S. Khawaja heading a Supreme Court bench hearing the famous "missing persons" case said that it was imperative to recover the missing persons at all costs and warned…
It is not the intention to paint a pessimistic picture of the prospects of fair and free elections taking place in relative peace but only to make the point that…
Brazen terror attacks at Bannu, Akora Khattak and the Jaffar Express have jolted an enervated nation and the Pakistani state. What the bloodbath at Police Line Peshawar two years ago…
IT has been a decade since the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, which killed some 150 students and staff in December 2014. It was the darkest moment in Pakistan’s…
THE ongoing political crisis in the country is turning ugly and chaotic. It is slowly undercutting any trust or hope people still repose in the state and its institutions. It…
THE ongoing political crisis in the country is turning ugly and chaotic. It is slowly undercutting any trust or hope people still repose in the state and its institutions. It…
COMPREHENDING the nature of a terrorist threat is essential for countering or physically eliminating it, as well as for preventing its recurrence. A terrorist threat comes from a complex system…
AFTER months of silence, we heard from the military’s spokesperson. The televised presser was supposed to be a briefing on counterterrorism efforts and the recent violence in Bannu. But the talk digressed to…
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 has led to a surge in terrorism in Pakistan. Nothing is safe from terror attacks – cantonments, airbases, police lines, counterterrorism department…
A pale sun greeted a troubled Pakistan on the first day of the new year. Traditional greetings wishing friends and family a Happy New Year sounded like the aspired for…
