A 100-day performance
Hundred days' yardstick can never be sufficient to evaluate the performance of a sitting government nevertheless the Nawaz regime has embarked on a fast track with commitment to alleviate the…
Deadly tentacles of terrorism
The ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar, has once again exposed hollowness…
View point: Talking to the Taliban
Last Sunday's Taliban attack in Upper Dir in which the GOC Swat and Malakand division, a Lieutenant Colonel and a non-commissioned officer were killed in the wake of a formal…
Militancy’s steady progress
In a country plagued by terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of leaders, ordinary people and the more vulnerable citizens, each tragedy is painful and emotionally draining. But every…
A toxic narrative
Imran Khan startles us with his philistinism each time he speaks on the issue of terrorism. His narrative on violent militancy in the country and the prescription to end the…
The haze of talks
It is heartening to know that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has told the National Assembly on September 19 that there won’t be any change “in the government’s position…
Kashmir and music diplomacy
What has Beethoven got to do with Kashmir, or Kashmir with Beethoven, for that matter? A couple of months ago, the question would have drawn a blank look from the…
Karachi situation: Some serious moves
Lasting peace in Karachi is now written on the wall with Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif himself making it a point to preside over the federal cabinet meeting in the…
Ominous clouds
While the world remains preoccupied with Syria, I want to devote this column, which appears on the 12th anniversary of 9/11, to an examination of the current situation in Afghanistan…
A pro-democracy wind?
Will the fair wind blowing across our political landscape contribute to the founding and consolidation of democratic conventions? The prospects seem to have brightened. There was good reason to celebrate…
