It is not the intention to paint a pessimistic picture of the prospects of fair and free elections taking place in relative peace but only to make the point that…
The Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned the newly independent Muslim state's foreign policy to be one of "peace with all, and enmity with none". Pakistan must…
Over the past five years, extremely bad governance wrought with corruption and compromise in the name of continuity of democracy has brought the country to a disastrous point. This has…
The postmodernist assault on Enlightenment, launched in the 1980s, was assisted by postcolonialism. Branching out of Cultural Studies, the latter started as a metropolitan academic attempt to surpass the marginalisation…
The BBC has reported that a group of British MPs have asked the British “government to withhold extra aid to Pakistan unless the country does more to gather taxes from…
THE excerpt from Mark Mazzetti’s new book, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, published last week by…
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher may have governed across the pond, but US conservatives mourned Monday as if they had lost one of their own. While Thatcher's legacy at…
Governance standards of the outgoing government are still under discussion, perhaps also vital to guide the voters in the coming general elections. While analysing their policies one notices some good…
The recent Pildat-Gallup poll showed that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf's Acceptability Gap - measured by the difference between voting intention and hostility - is positive in all eight (out of the total…
It can be argued that extra-judicial interventions first by Ghulam Mohammad as Governor General in 1951 and later by military regimes and disregard of the Constitution - facilitated by either…
