Power without principles
In a move that is bound to demoralise the highly professional police command, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has asked the federal interior minister to provide Rangers for Peshawar’s…
Flood control or signal-free corridors?
Floods come but once a year. They cause havoc but then, as is the way with nature, the rivers calm down and their fury subsides. Rajanpur and Muzaffargarh and places…
Drunk on power
It is said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I am generally suspicious of such adages but in some cases they are unerringly accurate. Our security establishment is…
Ignoring the alarms
Imagine you shifted to a house 78 years ago. The house had a few rooms and sufficient resources to take care of the needs of your family. Soon after you…
Window of opportunity
The recent downturn in India–US diplomatic and trade relations has created an opening to revive lobbying efforts for Kashmir in Washington, DC. The outcome of the India–Pakistan war in May…
Welfare not warfare
Amidst falling living standards and attacks on social welfare systems by the advanced capitalist world's ruling elites, the Global North's governments have pledged to pump more resources into the non-productive…
What Israel and the US didn’t achieve
The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, on open display…
Peacemaker Trump
More than one billion people in India and Pakistan breathed a sigh of relief after the ceasefire between the two countries. Life is returning to normal, with people on either…
Dreaming of sanity amidst hysteria
The Pahalgam attack in Occupied Kashmir has prompted war-mongers in the region to spring into action and incite war hysteria. Anti-Pakistan sentiments are running high in several parts of India,…
A question of gender
IT has been nearly a month since Mahrang Baloch was arrested. This previous weekend, the PTI’s Aliya Hamza was also arrested and taken to Adiala Jail. The two women were arrested in different parts…
