Pakistan’s regional policy choices
There’s no shortage of irony in the fact that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s diplomatic snub at the US-Arab-Islamic summit coincided with a decidedly rough patch in Pak-Iran relations. While President…
What’s in the gift box?
Before discussing the ‘gift theory’ and determining how an assessment of CPEC can be grounded in this theoretical discourse, it is important to mention that many Pakistanis consider the game-changing…
Draft law of National Tax Tribunal – I
"...the raison d'être of establishing special tribunals has been to dispense better quality of justice where people, better trained in particular fields and disciplines could provide quality decisions and resolution…
Time to recalibrate our security policy
The almost-simultaneous recent terrorist attacks in Lahore and Kabul clearly remind us of the cross-border mobility, capacity and advantages terrorists exploit due to the ongoing hostility between Afghanistan and Pakistan.…
The poor daughter of Balochistan
Benazir, a 16-year-old girl from Balochistan’s gas rich Dera Bugti district, came with blood-soaked clothes and escorted by her malnourished and traumatised parents to a government hospital in Quetta. With…
The eucalyptus controversy
The eucalyptus tree is native to the Australian continent and has been introduced to the other five continents due to its ability to grow quickly. In Pakistan it was introduced…
Will Modi curb his urge to ‘teach Pakistan a lesson’?
The death sentence awarded by a Military Field General Court Martial (FGCM) to a senior field operative of the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, naval Commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadav alias Hussein…
Viewpoint: US drone strike and ensuing controversy
The killing of Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in a US drone strike in Balochistan has generated a lot of anger and indignation in this country. The foreign ministry summoned the…
2016 – What a year it was!
In my memory, after 1971, last year was the most depressing in Pakistan's 69-year history because the human tragedies, cases of massive corruption in state offices, gross administrative neglect, and…
Report on MPI demands action
One initiative that the PML-N regime can fairly claim as an historic step forward is the introduction of a more refined poverty measuring yardstick - the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)…
