Political decorum in decline By Saira Samo
The steady decline in political discourse on our television screens has become a painful spectacle. Politicians from both the ruling …
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Coercive approach won’t work By Asif Durrani
IMAGINE Afghanistan and Pakistan becoming enemies, each seeking to undermine the other. However, history shows that the two nations share …
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Kashmir – A legal battle By Dr Shoaib Baloch
Kashmir is a legal contest between Pakistan and India. The revocation of Article 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution …
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Where’s the water? By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
ON March 27, a report in this newspaper quoted an unnamed official of the irrigation bureaucracy as saying: “There is …
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The leak By Imran Jan
If you open the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, it would seem that the American …
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New world order By Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
THE Trump administration has attacked the liberal world order, built on multilateral alliances like Nato, the EU and Bretton Woods …
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Adjusting to a changing world By Talat Masood
Currently, the world is facing a serious moral crisis, and universal values carry hardly any weightage. Leaders of several countries …
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A predator state By Zahid Hussain
PAKISTAN appears to fit the definition of a ‘predator state’ which, according to economist James K. Galbraith, is “a political …
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A Nation Caught Between Superpowers By Dr Hasnain Javed
Pakistan’s economic trajectory is increasingly shaped by its complex foreign policy, particularly its relationships with the United States and China. …
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Hard state, soft state By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Recently, the army chief addressed parliament after the Jaffar Express train attack in Balochistan. He said Pakistan had to become a “hard state” to …
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Middle East edging towards persistent crises By Shahid Javed Burki
Recent events in the Middle East may mean that the region, after years of conflict, could be heading towards a …
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Frozen relations By Maleeha Lodhi
TWO recent developments have reinforced the fraught relationship between Pakistan and India, which makes the prospect bleak for any thaw …
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A Roadmap to Women’s Empowerment By Dr Nasir Khan
In Pakistan, every woman has a story-stories of perseverance, dreams, and the struggle to carve out a space for herself …
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World Water Day: a wake-up call for Pakistan By Dr Ali M Mir
Pakistan stands on the brink of a water crisis, endangering its development, the well-being of its people, and its future …
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To build or not to build the ‘peace pipeline’ By Syed Mohammad Ali
Despite dwindling local gas reserves, and the soaring domestic demand for gas, Pakistan has not yet been able to operationalise …
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Political audit of Afghan policy By Rafiullah Kakar
THE latest clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces are yet another sign of the deepening rift between the two neighbours. Just …
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Warring cyclops By F.S. Aijazuddin
THE West and Russia are two cyclops who have never been able to see eye to eye. Over centuries, they …
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Beasts of burden By Khurram Hussain
THIS is perfect. The power bureaucracy has decided to go on the offensive against users of net-metering services, and decided to …
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