Local Government Elections 2015 | Yasmeen Aftab Ali
Why they are so important Decentralisation of administrative and financial responsibilities to the grassroots levels is crucial to the concept …Read More
Reality of Civil-Military Ties
THE International Day of Democracy is less than a decade old. The UN General Assembly voted in 2007 to celebrate …Read More
Jewels in rags’ | I.A. Rehman
AS in the past, this year, too, the examiners in Punjab’s education system have found some poor students, most of …Read More
Regional arms buildup | DAWN Editorial
THE establishment of the India Rapid Reaction Cell at the Pentagon should be cause for much disappointment among peace-minded people …Read More
India » Pakistan has Second Strike Capability Against India
ISLAMABAD: Former defence secretary retired Lt Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi has claimed that Pakistan possesses second strike capability against India. …Read More
Education Crisis
For weeks, parents across the country have been protesting against the arbitrary hikes in the already exorbitant fees of private …Read More
India Worried About Afghanistan-Pakistan Trade Deals
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have shelved a raft of agreements that promised to more than triple cross-border trade, officials said, …Read More
Barriers to way Forward | Iftikhar Ahmad
Prime minister Nawaz Sharif will raise the issue of India’s fanning terrorism in Pakistan at the up-coming session of the …Read More
Energy Sector Still in Disarray | Farhat Ali
It is now over two years that the government is struggling to define and structure a realistic roadmap to resolve …Read More
Countering Militancy: Taking the Battle to the Source | Zahid Hussain
The good news is that the scale of militant violence has come down significantly because of military operations in the …Read More
Water Wars: The Next Great Driver of Global Conflict?
As much as oil shaped the global geopolitics of the 20th century, water has the power to reorder international relations …Read More
Pakistan’s Security Imperatives | Mohsin Raza Malik
Once again, the National Command Authority (NCA), the apex policy-making body on strategic nuclear matters in Pakistan, has reaffirmed country’s …Read More
The Conundrum of Private Education | Sahar Bandial
In recent weeks, parents in urban centres have picked up the slogan “No fee till low fee” to object to …Read More
Pakistan and USA: A Chequered Past | Nadeem M Qureshi
The relationship between the United States of America and Pakistan is not monolithic. It consists of three distinct strands each …Read More
Pakistan’s Taxing Problem | Abdul Majeed Abid
Soon after partition, a ticket collector was making the rounds of a train and asked one of the passengers to …Read More
National Language | Saad Rasool
On 8th September, 2015, in the very final days of Chief Justice (Retd.) Jawwad S. Khawaja’s judicial tenure, the honorable …Read More
Security Challenges Facing Pakistan | Dr Muhammad Khan
Today, Pakistan is among the few countries, which simultaneously faces external and internal challenges to its very survival. Right from …Read More
Gender Inequality | Huma Yusuf
IT is becoming increasingly difficult to discuss the challenges that Pakistani women face. After all, Pakistani women have won Nobel …Read More


