Indian Terrorism Dossier: Pakistan Foreign Office exposes Indian support to terrorism

A joint presser by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and DG ISPR Gen. Iftikhar Babar, in the second week of November 2020, provided...

Khadim Hussain Rizvis’ of France

France and its revolutionary ideas have given much to the world. From Rousseau and Voltaire to Emile Durkheim to Fernand Braudel – the historian...

Khadim Hussain Rizvi: The Man and the phenomenon! Will this be the end of...

In November, Covid-19 claimed a very unusual and controversial life in Pakistan. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the founder of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), died on 19th November in...

Biden: New Man in the White House; Pakistan’s way forward?

Elections 2020 have stained the American democracy, and the toxic political divide will continue to polarize the US politics for an indefinite period –...

Kashmir, Gurdaspur & Mountbatten?

Alan Campbell Johnson, in his famous book, “Mission with Mountbatten” writes – while trying to explain why Kashmir, amongst the princely states, represented a...

Tracing the roots of BLA in the backdrop of PSX attack

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), came back into the limelight after it took responsibility for an audacious attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)...

Pakistan’s NCOC: Birth of a powerful democratic institution

Last week I had the opportunity to spend a whole day at National Command and Operational Centre (NCOC) and I left with this palpable...

Remembering Muhammad Pickthall: Quran’s first credible English Translator

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall died on 19th May, 1936. Today, few in the Muslim world remember him but maybe they should for he was the first...

Post-Corona World Order: Democratic or Authoritarian?

Francis Fukuyama’s, End of History and the Last Man (1992) – influenced by the events triggered by Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1987), Fall of...

Do Muslims believe in mantras of “Liberal World Order” – Why not?

Do Muslims in general – and Pakistanis in specific – care for liberal democracy? This question came to my mind, unbidden, unprompted, as I...

Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan

Peace Agreement signed in Doha between the US and Taliban is certainly historic and a moral victory for Pakistan. But New Delhi is bound...

Complex Kaleidoscope of Pakistan’s political theatre

Political system remained under stress from Peshawar to Karachi. It seems as if outgoing Chief Justice, Asif Saeed Khosa, had fired a “silver bullet”...

Gandhi’s India unravelling: was Mahatma’s vision flawed?

At 5:17pm on 30 January 1948, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a boudhik karyawah (worker) of RSS, emerged from a small crowd around Birla House and...

Why Govt must send “Judge’s Reference” to Supreme Judicial Council?

Many lawyers, members of Bar Associations, retired Judges and media commentators are now making a case that Govt. should not rush to Supreme Judicial...

How rogue lawyers are destroying courts?

How Pakistan’s judiciary is being undermined by rogue lawyers? Apparently this is not being understood by the top minds in Pakistan’s bar and bench....
9/11 attack after 21 years

9/11: Reflections After 21 Years

9/11 terror attacks in New York remind us of the darkest day in US history when Al-Qaeda terrorists, apparently masterminded by Osama Bin Laden...
Shehbaz Sharif

Shahbaz Sharif: A Prime Minister with unparalleled challenges

Shahbaz Sharif, a veteran of Pakistani politics for the past three decades, is now PM of Pakistan. He has thrice before served as the...
Regime Change to Regime Engagement

Washington should move from “Regime Change” to “Regime Engagement”

US-Pakistan relationships have always been difficult – but many wonder if they had ever before reached this low level? Democratic Biden and not Russia's...
Floor Crossing in Pakistan

Encouraging Floor Crossings is to support Money Laundering, Why?

PPP and PMLN, Pakistan’s main opposition parties that intend to de-seat Prime Minister Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence are banking on...
Pak china friendship

China and Pakistan: Partners in a shared future!

PM Imran Khan's visit to China on invitation by the Chinese leadership to visit Beijing from February 3 to Feb 6, 2022, to attend...