The US move on Hafiz Saeed
Hafiz Saeed and his followers are the latest addition to the growing list of major irritants that plague Pakistan-US relations these days. The United States’ decision to put Saeed –…
A big transition
IT is hard to imagine how someone changes the course of their life — more so when that person is a top jihadist leader on the world’s most-wanted terrorist lists…
Global terrorist threat
THE deadly attack on a concert hall in Moscow last week, which left around 140 people dead, marks the expansion in the terrorist operations of the so-called Khorasan chapter of…
Why bash the elite?
ELITE-BASHING is Pakistan’s newest sport. As the country stares into the default abyss, the ubiquitous phrase — ‘elite state capture’ — putatively explains all that has gone awry. Fat-cats are…
PTI-PML-N: same or different?
A SIZEABLE splinter within the military-led establishment is demanding that Imran Khan, as its former creation, deserves a second stint in power. Fractures have cascaded downwards and split the superior…
Terror nexus in Afghanistan
THE attack on the Pakistan embassy in Kabul last week raises questions about the Taliban administration’s capacity and resolve to fight terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil. The shooting that…
Same old mantra all round
He came, he saw, he ‘conquered’. That is the take of hardline ‘patriots’ and a large section of our media on Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s visit to Goa…
Pakistan deserves recognition
Pakistan’s progress in handling the threat of terrorism and curtailing it significantly is a success story in itself. With continuous efforts of security forces across the country and overcoming the…
Clarifying perspectives, defeating terrorism
With the situation in Afghanistan now reaching a climatic point as the US finalizes its troop withdrawal, Pakistan will inevitably have to deal with a possible influx of militants and…
What is terrorism?
THE Financial Action Task Force has announced that Pakistan would remain on its grey list for further monitoring for another four months. In this period, the country will have to improve its…
