Control of the narrative
The emerging narrative in Pakistan, especially in the Punjabi mainland and the urban centres of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, shows that the militant discourse is fast moving from social to…
The emerging narrative in Pakistan, especially in the Punjabi mainland and the urban centres of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, shows that the militant discourse is fast moving from social to…
The Nairobi drama holds a lesson or two for Pakistan, especially when we see the differences between Al Shabab and the Pakistani Taliban. The duration of Al Shabab’s control of…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid to lure the centre-left Social Democrats into a new grand coalition government has plunged the SPD into turmoil that ultimately could imperil the 150-year-old party's…
Last week, top secret details about America’s intelligence expenditure were made public as part of the leaks by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The leaked “black budget” has never…
Now that the guns that had been blazing at the previous government have fallen silent and are unlikely to open fire again, unless the present government offers serious provocation, or…
Pakistan possesses all the basic ingredients essential for becoming a global hub for Islamic banking and finance. The biggest advantage that Pakistan has over its competitors in Islamic banking and…
The Egyptian crisis and wider turmoil in the Middle East has intensified the debate in America and beyond about how Washington should respond to the turbulent turn of events in…
The remarkable economic success of the ‘Asian Tigers’ (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) has long fascinated the world, Asia in particular. The Asian Tigers resurfaced during the May…
The decline of "penal welfarism" is significant along with the shift from the change occurring in rehabilitative to punitive ideals in criminal justice politics. The end of a system of…
Soon after the 1998 census results were made public, Reza Ali, an urban planner and researcher from Lahore, wrote a path-breaking article called ‘How urban is Pakistan?’, in which he…