Travellers passing through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport this week witnessed a show of force following the Brussels airport attack: the US Army soldiers in khaki camouflage bearing…
"Terrorist trade and experience are passed on from Western masters to their new Muslim recruits. The Mujahideen, Al-Qaida, ISIS - on closer examination, their tactics of intimidation and terrorisation are…
After the 21st Amendment in January 2015, the Rangers operations ongoing since 2012 in Karachi went into overdrive with a significant decline in incidents of terrorism and targeted killings. The…
Pakistan came into being in 1947 as the first ideological state founded on the basis of religion (followed closely by Israel). Separated by 1000 miles of an implacable foe's territory,…
Recently, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, caused ripples when he stressed that publicly funded research should not be farmed out to the pharmaceutical industry. Corbyn’s intervention flagged…
Some years ago, Narendra Jadhav whom I interviewed soon after he was appointed to the Planning Commission of India, presented me with a family biography called Untouchables which had become…
By just tinkering with tax rates here and there and imposing or enhancing regressive taxes - fixing revenue collection target at Rs 2598 billion for fiscal year 2013-14 - the…
On Monday, leaders from governments, international agencies, the private sector and civil society will gather at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, to address some of the most critical challenges…
A Husband and wife in Pakistan can never be alone again. In between them sit the clerics of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). However small the space may be,…
According to reports, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly – which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural issues – has passed a resolution tabled by Pakistan and co-sponsored…
