Engaging India | Munir Akram
AFTER an initially ‘mature’ response to the attack on the Pathankot air force base, the Indian government has reverted to …Read More
Women in the Police — Bumpy Road to Equality | Mohammad Ali Babakhel
While South Asian women, over the years, have made an indelible mark in statecraft, surprisingly in the sphere of the …Read More
Pakistan’s Reconstructive Surgery | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Silent. Decaying. Smouldering. Hurting without much noise. That is how most South Asians spend their mortal lives. When it becomes …Read More
Realism on Summits | A.G. Noorani
AFTER Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on Dec 25, India and Pakistan have …Read More
Political Economy of Taxation | Sakib Sherani
IF a second marriage is dubbed a “triumph of hope over experience”, what should an eighth tax amnesty scheme be …Read More
What’s ‘P’ in CPEC?: Pakistan or Punjab | Abbas Nasir
A keen businessman who has been hurt badly by his own miscalculations in the past, the prime minister seems to …Read More
Pakistan & India / Top Civil-Military Brass for Extending all-out Help to Delhi
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday reaffirmed commitment to cooperation with India for probe into the Pathankot terror attack and …Read More
Guess How Many Bombs America Dropped in 2015 | Micah Zenko
The primary focus—meaning the commitment of personnel, resources, and senior leaders’ attention—of U.S. counter terrorism policies is the capture or …Read More
The US Shouldn’t Take Sides in Ksa-Iran Tension | Fareed Zakaria
Over the past two decades, the United States has approached the Middle East through its own conceptual frameworks: dictatorships vs …Read More
Good Governance and its Digital Dividend | Tariq Malik
Good governance is a hot topic in Pakistan these days. Can a fragile state deliver good governance? Ranked eleventh on …Read More
India’s Secret Nuclear City | Yasir Hussain
In her address to the UN General Assembly, India’s external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, reaffirmed her country’s support for non-discriminatory …Read More
How Not to Make CPEC Controversial
implementation of the CPEC as before. Chief Minister Khattak told media he was dissatisfied with answers to the 13 questions …Read More
We Seem to be Moving From the Culture of Writing | Zubeida Mustafa
CAROL Loomis, an American financial journalist, who retired in 2014 as senior editor of Fortune magazine, once wrote, “Writing itself …Read More
Women are Also Vying for the Post of UN’s Next Chief | Shazia Rafi
“HE won’t vote for you; he says he is looking for a secretary general, not a secretary,” Elsa Papademetriou fumed …Read More
Why India Must Bring Expertise to Help Regional Stability | Jawed Naqvi
The unsettling if confounding assault on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot came a day after Pakistan’s powerful military …Read More
Undermining National Interests | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak, of late, has been trying to foment political controversy about implementation of CPEC, particularly the …Read More
The Cost of National Security | Afiya Shehrbano
udging by our media, we must be the most insecure country in the world. On a daily basis, there is …Read More
National Debt: Facts From Fiction? | Dr Kamal Monnoo
Last week at a CPEC road network’s inaugural ceremony in Baluchistan, the finance minister in his address was visibly angry …Read More


