ALTHOUGH no breakthrough was achieved at the UN General Assembly, there has been some progress where finding a negotiated solution to the US war on Iran is concerned. For example, both the American an...
THE clock may have been pushed back, but the countdown to another confrontation between the PTI and the state has not stopped yet. In one camp, a millennial politician is taking the big decisions, if ...
IF anything, the IMF reviews capture the paradox of Pakistan’s economic management. The numbers may be improving, but the economy itself remains largely unchanged. The government is meeting some fis...
ISRAEL’S barbaric violence in Gaza, as well as rampages by extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank, have earned the Zionist state the opprobrium of several states during the ongoing UN General As...
THE Supreme Court has delivered a simple but powerful reminder: dower is a wife’s right, not a favour from her husband and certainly not a tool to control her. In a judgement on disputes arising fro...
WITH no let-up in terrorist attacks on Pakistan by elements finding refuge in Afghanistan, Islamabad has again launched kinetic action in the border area to target terrorist groups. The actions have r...
OVER the next few days, one of the biggest events of the diplomatic calendar will take place in New York in the shape of the UN General Assembly. Though the UN has hardly played a proactive role in ad...
ISLAMABAD is bracing for two waves of protests. Not too long ago, for political parties to march towards the federal capital was nothing out of the ordinary. However, for some years now, Islamabad has...
PAKISTAN cannot become a modern state as long as its bureaucracy continues to be organised around hierarchy, seniority and generalist recruitment. The system has become better at managing careers than...
IN a world awash with violence, where the old geopolitical rules of the game are being rapidly rewritten, there is a need for states to display maturity and rational behaviour in statecraft. This is a...