Conflict and climate
PROMISES are meant to be broken. That’s why we should respond to the outcome of COP28 with a healthy dose of scepticism. The headlines will focus on the language agreed…
Optimising CPEC
PAKISTAN is finally getting back on the right diplomatic track. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s successful visits to Riyadh and Beijing have created an air of optimism regarding economic revival in the country. Army chief…
A riotous future?
AS our judges, generals and ruling class politicians continue to engage in myopic, factional battles for money and power, the teeming masses are increasingly restive. Every day there are new…
Worsening trend
A US Congressman last week introduced a resolution calling for the House to recognise Islam as a major religion in an effort to foster more respect for Muslims within America.…
The TTP threat
The TTP’s return to the capital last week should not come as a surprise. The warning signs have been growing in intensity since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Through political statements, protests…
Misplaced belief
Pakistan is too big to fail. Its geostrategic location, its burgeoning population, its nuclear arsenal. For almost two decades these have been wielded as a threat to the neoliberal order:…
Terror nexus in Afghanistan
THE attack on the Pakistan embassy in Kabul last week raises questions about the Taliban administration’s capacity and resolve to fight terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil. The shooting that…
Deadly symbiosis
TERRORISM is theatre, and the internet a stage where terrorists can perform certain roles. For example, while executing a terrorist attack, planners also want to use it to attract an…
Terrorism and election
THE ongoing political crisis in the country is turning ugly and chaotic. It is slowly undercutting any trust or hope people still repose in the state and its institutions. It…
Return to the dark ages
IT is a year since the Taliban stormed Kabul to retake control of Afghanistan some two decades after the conservative Islamic regime was routed by American forces following the events of 9/11.…
