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Coercive diplomacy

PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN relations have been on a downward trajectory. They plunged to a new low earlier this month when Pakistan carried out air strikes on hideouts of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan…

Targeting militant sanctuaries

THE long-simmering tension between the two countries now threatens to escalate into a full-blown conflict after Pakistan’s latest air strike on militant sanctuaries inside Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban regime claims to have…

On a collision course

PREDICTABLY, the three-member Supreme Court bench headed by the chief justice ruled on Tuesday that the decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan to postpone elections to the Punjab Assembly…

Abraham’s seed

IN 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. Seventy-eight years later, his destructive spirit has reincarnated itself in Benjamin Netanyahu, a US-trained Jew. Many of Hitler’s policies…

Pakistan’s Afghan dilemma

ONCE again Pakistan has warned the Taliban authorities in Kabul about the consequences of attacks the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is conducting from across the border. In the most strongly worded…

Fifty years later

THE 1956 constitution survived for two and a half years up until Ayub Khan’s martial law in October 1958. The 1962 constitution was the work of a military dictator, the…

A saffron silence

HAD William Shakespeare been alive today in Pakistan, he would have given a different twist to his drama Julius Caesar. He would have reframed history in the light of our…

Power and accountability

RECENT political developments have made one thing very clear: Pakistani citizens lack the knowledge of how various government institutions function. Hence, they are prone to believing the disinformation peddled by…