Securing Peace in Balochistan
Dr Atique Ur Rehman
Prime Minister of Pakistan and COAS's frequent visit to Balochistan in last few weeks…
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Shattered Illusions: The G20 Showdown in Kashmir
ByDr. Nazir Hussain
“THE G20 MEETING IN KASHMIR SEEMS A BACKFIRED ATTEMPT TO NORMALIZE THE OCCUPATION. “
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Renowned MountaineerJabbar Bhatti , all set to scale Nanga Parbat in June
Written by Muhammad Khalil Dar
Few could stretch their imagination in 2017 that a man who had submitted himself…
Making of a Military Commander By Brig (r) Atique Ur Rehman
Will Durant writes in his book lessons of history that first lesson of history is modesty and life is all about…
Excerpts from book ” how does superclass rule nations; A case study from…
The Revolutionary Nationalism
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan in March 2022 claimed he was fighting against…
Transition of Threat
By Dr Atique Ur RehmanKen Booth defined strategic culture as “a nation's traditions, values, attitudes, patterns…
Three-Front War
Dr Atique Ur Rehman
Fighting terrorism, response to Indian unprovoked firing on line of control and confronting…
Enabling digital transformation
By Jorgen C Arentz Rostrup
Digital technologies in Pakistan could create up to Rs9.7 trillion ($59.7 billion)…
Politics of populism and Internet
By Dr Atique Ur RehmanPolitical culture and practice of governance in Pakistan is already a disaster, apparently…
Governance by all
By Atique Ur RehmanGovernance is not only job of government alone in challenging times like present era. It is…
Increasing Poverty Challenge Is Creating A Social Divide Between The Hindu…
By Amir Jahangir: (Being reproduced with consent of writer)
The Global Risk Report 2023 issued…
Opinion Making
Dr Atique Ur Rehman: For a catch in pond, one need not to make a mud. There are other ways to catch the fish. If…
Act of Valour- Risaldar Muhammad Khan
Muhammad Nauman Saeed,
A lot of people have seen the Brad Pitt starring season hit, “Fury”. The story of…
Political Instability and Security Dilemma
Dr. Atique Ur Rehman: With each passing day, Pakistan is experiencing more political instability and chaos. After…
What are takeaways from movie ‘Don’t Look Up?
Atique Ur Rehman:
Our successive governments and power players have been involved in their political ambitions…
UNSG snubs India on Human Rights Violation
As an elected member of the Human Rights Council, India has a responsibility to shape global human rights, and to…
A Nation in Crisis
Domestic political crisis in the country is nothing new for the nation rather it goes well with our political…
National Discourse
Dr Atique Ur Rehman
A national discourse is the fundamental way a nation adopts to progress and move forward. Our national discourse…
Russia-Ukraine: Another Cold War?
As the Russian-Ukraine war enters its 12th day, there is still no indication of when the conflict will end in the…
Use of Fake News; Reasons and Remedy
Atique Ur Rehman
Straight lines are getting blurred with each passing day for every stakeholder who deals in…
What are takeaways from movie ‘Don’t Look Up?’
Atique Ur Rehman
Our successive governments and power players have been involved in their political ambitions…
The UAE’s new ME policies
Dr. James J. Zogby
One year ago, looking at the many Middle East messes Joseph Biden was inheriting from his…
Empowering the parliament
Senator Rehman Malik
Except at the time of formulating the constitution or the 18th amendment, which is also…
Ladakh demands autonomy
Masud Ahmad Khan
Ladakh in IIOJK is in the news again, this time not because of the Chinese PLA but because…
Remembering Benazir Bhutto & her journey to martyrdom
Bashir Riaz
“Shadow, I will miss u. I thank u for all u did for the party and me from the time I met u in 1977.…
A letter from Washington never written
Najm us Saqib
Forget about the Taliban. They neither deserve legitimacy nor is there any point in looking for a…
Future of the international ‘rules-based order’
Saad Rasool
The truth is that the ‘new year’ has no astronomical significance attached to it. None. It merely…
Christmas: Then and now
Dr. James J. Zogby
The Christmas story as it is told in the West contains timeless elements that have shaped…
Gains for Pakistan at the OIC summit
Dr Atique Ur Rehman
The two-day 17th extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the…
Forgive yourself
Najm us Saqib
Depending on which history book one is skimming through, there would always be at least two ways…
Inflation facts and figures
Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Price stability is obviously the prime concern of every government as high and variable…
Hangover Part IV: The colonial kind
Shahzeb Amin
Colonialism, that thing your grandfather curses when you’re sitting on his lap listening to his…
Last Man Standing -73
GC 20620, Atique Ur Rehman, Tariq-1
It was chill afternoon in Abbottabad on 29 March 1984, the day I joined the…
Democracy in an unequal world
Atle Hetland
A week ago, President Joe Biden hosted a digital ‘Summit for Democracy’. Interpretations of the…
Have we learnt our lessons?
Dr Zarqa Suharwardy Taimur
Kung Fu Panda or someone equally famous said, “life keeps serving you the same…
The mentor who changed my world view
Zara Maqbool
We all have a story. We all have wounds that bled at one point of time or continue to bleed. Some…
India: The nerve center of global propaganda
Atique Ur Rehman
The 21st century global order has resulted in decentralising the power to regional complexes.…
The Taliban’s 100 days of solitude
Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri
The Taliban have been in power for almost 100 days; a timeline often used to test the nerve…
A broken system?
Saad Rasool
Does the governance matrix in Pakistan, along with the State’s service delivery structure, live up…
A constitutional Muslim
Zafar Aziz Chaudhry
Every time I pass through the Cornelius Underpass on Lahore’s Canal bank Road, I am…
The Broken Male Psyche
“Not all men”- Time and time again, we will be slammed with this very statement; a scapegoat used by the vast…
India Deceit and Propaganda: 1971 War and Afterwards
By Dr Atique Ur Rehman
South Asia and Southeast Asia are increasingly coming to an important regions due to…
An open letter to some ‘poor men’
Zara Maqbool
Dear poor man,
Every day you share countless jokes and memes and Tik Tok videos with your…
The Importance of the Arbery Verdict
Dr. James J. Zogby
Like many Americans, I was overjoyed by news that a Georgia jury had found three white men…
Strategic choices
Imran Malik
US-India strategic interests and objectives converge splendidly when it comes to countering and…
Rethinking economic equations
Dr Kamal Monnoo
Amid all the wild swings in Pakistan’s economic policymaking over almost the past three years,…
Strengthening the federation
Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Balanced development is a prerequisite for equitable growth and societal stability. Quite…
New plans for Kashmir
Noor Humair
A few days ago, a gut-wrenching video of a girl surfaced on social media, whose father was martyred…
“He who kills an innocent individual, kills all of humanity”
Maleeha Hashmey
A religion which is fundamentally based on this fair principle—there could have been no bigger…
Understanding ground realities
Dr Farid A Malik
Imran Khan (IK), the 22nd Prime Minister (PM) of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, recently…
The law of contempt and press
Shahrukh Mehboob
The “rule of law” is the basic principle of governance of any civilised and democratic…
Pakistan-Bangladesh: Rethinking the paradigm
Saad Rasool
This month will mark fifty years of Bangladesh’s “independence” (read: separation), from Pakistan.…
The state versus bigots
Saleem Qamar Butt
The recent developments in Pakistan with respect to the government making unspecified deals…
NSC and a presidential system in Pakistan?
Lt Gen Tariq Khan (R)
In the years preceding 9/11, Pakistan witnessed two thousand sectarian killings. Religion…
The worlds of fiction
Muhammad Omar Iftikhar
Science fiction literature has been termed as the narrative of modernity by the authors…
COP 26—impressions and expectations
Ifrah Shaukat
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 ended with an international agreement, but…
Rooms with no windows
Atle Hetland
Many times, institutions, organisations, companies, and also groups of people and individuals,…
Economy: Misconceptions and targeting relief
Dr Kamal Monnoo
In a surprising move, the Ministry of Planning last week released some statistics that aim at…
An eventful day in history
Alishae Khar
Yesterday marked the founding day of a party that would forever change the course of Pakistan’s…
“An army of lions
Lt Gen Asad Durrani Lt Gen (retired)
...led by a sheep will be defeated by an army of sheep led by a lion”.…
Honourable house
Dr Farid A Malik
On October 17, 2021, the leader of the opposition, Shehbaz Sharif (SS) while speaking in the…
Dealing with militancy
Lt Gen (Retd) Tariq Khan
Dispensing justice and appeasing criminals is mutually exclusive to one another. You…
Youm-i-Tasees; gains and losses by PPP
Senator Rehman Malik
Today we are celebrating the 54th founding day of the Pakistan People’s Party as on…
Climate change: The only constant
Najm us Saqib
Global-scale altering of climate has been a dream for humans since the ancient Greeks started…
Women’s financial inclusion in Pakistan
Salis Malik
Even after traversing in the 21th century, there has always been a large unabridged gender gap when…
From secularism to Hindu fascism
Masud Ahmad Khan
It was Muhammad Bin Qasim who entered Sindh in 712 AD and Arab traders also brought Islam to…
Measles and Rubella campaign
Huma Khawar
Measles is a highly contagious disease that claims one life every four minutes. Every year 100,000…
ECO—into the future together
Rahim Hayat Qureshi
In 1964, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey came together and formed the Regional Cooperation for…
A new regional war?
Saad Rasool
Amidst all the uncertainty surrounding the resurgence of coronavirus, global supply-chain…
International Day of Solidarity with Palestine
Noor Humair
November 29 is observed annually as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People…
Devolution: An overview
Erum Ashfaq
Ever since 2013, the government of Punjab has been sceptical on whether or not to promulgate the…
Global intervention in Kashmir
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai
Kashmir is a natural paradise, surrounded by India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and with…
The Ehsaas programme
Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Ehsaas, a flagship social protection programme launched by the incumbent federal…
Reforms and institution building
Mohsin Saleem Ullah
The forefathers of Pakistan envisioned a country that could provide an environment free…
Sports and terrorism
Muhammad Majid Bashir
Ideally, both in theory and practicality, sport and politics should be dealt with in two…
Human security and refugee politics
Atique Sheikh
Conflicts and civil wars bring miseries for human lives. There is no bigger pain for a human to…
The saga of Justice (R) Rana Shamim’s affidavit
Saad Rasool
The accountability cases concerning Nawaz Sharif and his family members—currently sub judice before…
Muslims under attack in Tripura
Masud Ahmad Khan
Tripura is an Indian state in North East India which is encircled from three sides, the North,…
The other side of religious freedom
Najm us Saqib
Pakistan has again joined the exclusive club of states designated by the US as Countries of…
Home-based workers—victims of GBV
Kashif Shamim Siddiqui
In the patriarchal structures of our society, violence against women is considered a…
Pakistan-China Friendship Farm
Yasir Habib Khan
In a bid to ramp up efforts for enhancing agricultural cooperation between Pakistan and China…
Rising from the ashes: The phoenix that is Pakistan cricket
Moiz Asim
Respect, humility, and hard work; these are three words I never associated with the Pakistan cricket…
Indo-Pacific contest
Akhtar Khan
Alliances are an important part of the international cooperation system between states. They define…
Social protection promotion
Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Social protection signifies the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of the…
Arab Americans: The promise, not the problem, of Dearborn
Dr. James J. Zogby
There are many stories that will be written about the meaning of the 2021 elections, but for…
COP26: Failure in changing global economics
M Jahanzeb Butt
It has been emphasised in the so-called Conference of Parties (COP) 26 that it is essential to…
Mainstreaming terrorism
By Imran Malik
“Reconciled” terrorist groups like the TTP, if at all, will pose serious problems for Pakistan.…
Common law for commoners
By Dr Farid A Malik
‘One is innocent unless proven guilty’, this applies to common folks, not public office…
A cricketing miracle
BY Saad Rasool
Pakistan’s national cricket team—despite its loss to Australia in the Semi-Final—has…
Global order in the 21st century
BY Atique Ur Rehman
Since the origin of international relations as a discipline a hundred years…
CPEC and Agriculture
By Hassan Shahid
Pakistan is an an agro-based economy. 48% of Pakistan’s labour force (more so in rural…
Swift progress on CPEC
By: Hassan Shahid
Chinese investment in Agriculture
The more we talk about CPEC, the more it…
Digital media and society
Atique Ur Rehman
The theory of Mass Society and Mass Communication have both been in play since the…
CPEC – Rashakai SEZ
Karachi April 4; Federal Minister for Planning & Development Asad Umar Sunday said the projects under China…
India’s Obsession to Malign CPEC
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is regarded as the great game changer for Pakistan ushering in an era of…