Waiting For Reform | Bakhtawar Bilal Soofi
Oct 8,15EVER since independence, there has been no major reform of the judicial system in Pakistan despite a growing realisation of …
Read MoreTwisted Education Debate | Babar Sattar
Oct 8,15Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. How within a five-year period did we get from “the …
Read MoreAn Overview of Indo-Pak Military Doctrines | Syed Kashif Ali
Oct 8,15Ever since Pakistan detonated its nuclear devices back in 1998, it chose the policy of nuclear restraint In the past …
Read MoreNew vistas in Foreign Policy | Afzal Hussain
Oct 8,15On September 15, 2015, the breaking news was “Pakistan military band enthralls Moscow”. A 78-member Pakistan Tri-Services Military band enthralled …
Read MoreLocal Government Elections 2015 | Yasmeen Aftab Ali
Oct 8,15Why they are so important Decentralisation of administrative and financial responsibilities to the grassroots levels is crucial to the concept …
Read MoreReality of Civil-Military Ties
Oct 6,15THE International Day of Democracy is less than a decade old. The UN General Assembly voted in 2007 to celebrate …
Read MoreJewels in rags’ | I.A. Rehman
Oct 6,15AS in the past, this year, too, the examiners in Punjab’s education system have found some poor students, most of …
Read MoreRegional arms buildup | DAWN Editorial
Oct 6,15THE establishment of the India Rapid Reaction Cell at the Pentagon should be cause for much disappointment among peace-minded people …
Read MoreIndia » Pakistan has Second Strike Capability Against India
Oct 6,15ISLAMABAD: Former defence secretary retired Lt Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi has claimed that Pakistan possesses second strike capability against India. …
Read MoreEducation Crisis
Oct 6,15For weeks, parents across the country have been protesting against the arbitrary hikes in the already exorbitant fees of private …
Read MoreIndia Worried About Afghanistan-Pakistan Trade Deals
Oct 6,15ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have shelved a raft of agreements that promised to more than triple cross-border trade, officials said, …
Read MoreBarriers to way Forward | Iftikhar Ahmad
Oct 6,15Prime minister Nawaz Sharif will raise the issue of India’s fanning terrorism in Pakistan at the up-coming session of the …
Read MoreEnergy Sector Still in Disarray | Farhat Ali
Oct 6,15It is now over two years that the government is struggling to define and structure a realistic roadmap to resolve …
Read MoreCountering Militancy: Taking the Battle to the Source | Zahid Hussain
Oct 6,15The good news is that the scale of militant violence has come down significantly because of military operations in the …
Read MoreWater Wars: The Next Great Driver of Global Conflict?
Oct 6,15As much as oil shaped the global geopolitics of the 20th century, water has the power to reorder international relations …
Read MorePakistan’s Security Imperatives | Mohsin Raza Malik
Oct 6,15Once again, the National Command Authority (NCA), the apex policy-making body on strategic nuclear matters in Pakistan, has reaffirmed country’s …
Read MoreThe Conundrum of Private Education | Sahar Bandial
Oct 6,15In recent weeks, parents in urban centres have picked up the slogan “No fee till low fee” to object to …
Read MorePakistan and USA: A Chequered Past | Nadeem M Qureshi
Oct 6,15The relationship between the United States of America and Pakistan is not monolithic. It consists of three distinct strands each …
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