Afghans hold social media summit as internet use soars
As internet use in urban centres and amongst youth booms, Afghanistan is set to host its first-ever social media summit, with organisers promoting the websites as democratic tools for engaging…
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…
The irrationality of warmongering
The Assad regime is primarily but not exclusively responsible for the extended and unspeakable brutality of the civil war in Syria which has killed over 100,000 Syrians and internally and…
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…
They all want a Tarar!
Mamnoon Hussain was elected the country's twelfth President as expected. However not quite expected before Raja Zafarul Haq's petition to the Supreme Court to bring the date of the election…
Watch out, Mian Sahib
Mian Nawaz Sharif, who could not finish his stipulated term as prime minister twice before, has taken oath of office as PM again. Acquiring a ‘heavy mandate’ in his 1997…
Is Pakistan finally coming of age?
The clouds lift, methinks, to some degree and the Pakistani prospect looks brighter than it has done for a long time. All because Pakistan with its great capacity for not…
Beginning of the end
Thousands of Shia protesters braved sub-zero temperature for nearly three days as they staged a sit-in in Quetta, refusing to bury 87 victims of the January 10 twin bombings at…
Raja in Kabul
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf went on a day trip to Afghanistan on the invitation of Afghan President Karzai. The actual invitation was given to his predecessor Yousuf Raza Gilani…
