Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Justice Served or Justice Denied?

Among the decisions by the Supreme Court (SC) in the NAB case last Friday was the verdict de-notifying three NAB Regional Heads. Strictly according...

Understanding the RAW-NDS nexus against Pakistan

India has long cherished the dream of becoming a hegemonic power in the region, to achieve regional preponderance; New Delhi has employed both soft...

Bury the Past, Not the Future

Twenty four years of shared history between the eastern and western wings of Pakistan preceded the violent emergence of Bangladesh on a groundswell of...

The “Deep State’’

Writing in the New York Times (NYT), Amanda Taub and Max Fisher talked about shadowy networks within govt bureaucracies, referred to as “Deep States”,...

Operation “Searchlight”

Despite the complex and demanding negotiations during the tumultuous days of March 1971, a positive outcome was possible and seemed near but it came...

Why Blame Islam for Conflicts, Wars and Terrorism?

Introduction Donald Trump, the US president is targeting Muslims on the pretext of the war against terrorism. He is under influence of a common myth...

ECO Summit Islamabad

The Economic Cooperation Organization ECO is the successor organization of RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development that was formed in 1964 leveraging the status being...

Pakistan America relations through Afghan prism

After the change of administration, the Afghanistan issue is once again picking up momentum in the American calculus. The month of February saw a...

Uzbekistan-Pakistan Direct Air-Links

The Heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan will resume direct flight operations from Lahore, to Tashkent from April 5, 2017 and will launch two flights...

ECO-CPEC Compatibility

The recent Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit in Islamabad was an interesting event. It had symbolic as well as substantive significance. In the symbolic...