Maintaining vigilance
LAST week’s heinous attack on a passenger bus traversing the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Chilas area is a reminder of the escalating terrorist threat that casts a long shadow over…
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…
A loose cannon supreme leader
Hell hath no fury like Nawaz Sharif ousted from power. Disqualified in a Panama Papers scandal related case and facing corruption references in a NAB accountability court, he has been…
The wrong approach
Pakistan never lacked the will to liberate India Occupied Kashmir (IOK) from New Delhi’s military clutches; but we chose a way for the purpose that could not have led the…
The day of the proxy warrior is over
Thankfully, the turn from belligerency towards relative de-escalation seems to have set in between Pakistan and India. The current crisis in relations between the two South Asian neighbours was triggered…
Urgency to fulfil FATF action plan
The success of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package depends on several factors however one that is not under much discussion domestically at least (though one would hope this…
Future of Pak-US relations
PAKISTAN’s long, close and turbulent relationship with the US has had a pervasive impact on this country’s history. The last phase of that relationship, the ‘war on terror’ alliance, ended…
An ongoing war
THE Easter Sunday carnage in Sri Lanka demonstrates how terrorists can find a soft belly and hit it hard. They have learnt the art of exploiting local conflicts to set…
Peace is difficult
THE recent military crisis with India was a baptism of fire for Prime Minister Imran Khan and the PTI government. In the event, the Pakistani leader emerged as a responsible…
The case of the ‘downed’ F-16
LARA Seligman, Foreign Policy’s Pentagon correspondent, will definitely not be the favourite journalist among the ultra-nationalist sections of the Indian media today. In her scoop in foreignpolicy.com, she has attributed…
