Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Countdown to Salvation

Notwithstanding PPP and ANP desperately trying to avoid impending rout by delaying the electoral process, approximately 86 million people will be eligible to decide...

Electoral Surprise

Other than the "electables" of the feudal kind, every Province has its own ethnic, racial and sectarian electoral dynamics, our extremely defective "first past...

Saudi Arabia’s Counter Terrorism Strategy

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. It has had been terrifying the state and people alike around the world in the past. Vested socio-economic,...

Futility of Drone Attacks

Drone is a milder terminology used for the 'Unarmed Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) being employed by the CIA and other clandestine troops on behalf...

View From Tel Aviv –Israel’s Strategic Dilemma

"A shrewd person sees trouble coming and avoids it; The ignorant walk right into it and pay the price." King Solomon son of King...

Why was Pakistan Created?

After over sixty six years of independence, some people still raise the fundamental question: Why was Pakistan created? Muslims and Hindus lived in India...

Yaum-e-Shuhada 2013

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and...

Bringing Change and Transforming the Public Sphere in Pakistan

Similar to other Islamists in the several parts of the Muslim world, Pakistani Islamists have also used intolerant and exclusivist rhetoric. They have abused...

The Brussels Rendezvous

Pak-Afghan relations have an interesting dynamics; just when there is a feeler of improvement, they nosedive into another crisis. Nonetheless, it is encouraging that...

New Government New Challenges

Elections 2013 is over. Post elections political heat is also going to cool. Dust of defeat and rigging is confronting in different parts of...