Droning Mullah Fazlullah
In Pakistan, anger has greeted the killing of Afghan Taliban head, Mullah Mansour, by an American drone on Pakistani territory. When senior US officials visited army chief Gen Raheel Sharif…
Jammu & Kashmir: what next?
Pakistan and India are at daggers drawn since Independence. The bone of contention between the arch rivals, besides some other factors, is the Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, continuous…
Institution vs the individual
ALMOST everybody you talk to in Pakistan laments the decrepit state of our ‘institutions’ and attributes most of the ills of the country over 70-plus years to the neglect and…
Punish the real culprit(s)!
Facing the storm unleashed by the leaking of the Cyril Almeida story, "Act Against Militants or Face International Isolation, Civilians Tell Military," the Nawaz Sharif government labelled it as being…
On balancing Iran-Saudi relations: A hamletian quandary
If foreign policy of a country is to be gauged by relations with immediate neighbors, Pakistan seems to have not done well so far. Lately, Pakistan faces the challenge how…
The ‘New World Disorder’ and the relevance of Pakistan
As if by celestial edict, cricket World Order started dismantling itself 4 years ago. The most glaring examples are Trumpism and Brexit. Both are seismic events, presaging a tectonic shift…
Confusion prevails over honorary degrees` registration by PMDC
Registration of honorary degrees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) is a violation of its own decisions taken by…
Dealing with the Saudis
THE long-standing strategic alliance between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia has taken on a new dimension with prospects of the kingdom participating in CPEC projects. The Saudis have reportedly also shown…
Project PTI in peril?
THE manner in which the cabinet was reshuffled this week has raised the inevitable question: is project PTI beginning to unravel? It is difficult to say for sure but the…
Courting the military
IT is time to bemoan the failure of our legal system yet again. Not because of the change at the Supreme Court but because the first extension given to the…
