WHILE diplomatic efforts are underway to restore dialogue with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, as the Foreign Office has pointed out, talks can only succeed when there is a firm commitment from Kabul to en...
THE Islamabad High Court earlier this week ruled on two petitions challenging the conditions in which former prime minister Imran Khan and former first lady Bushra Bibi have been kept in Adiala Jail, ...
PAKISTAN’S star in the field of foreign policy is on the ascendant. Not too long ago, because of our own mistakes and the malevolence of some in the neighbourhood, Pakistan’s reputation had suffer...
THE logic of the decision has been questioned, with critics accusing cricket authorities in the country of pressing the panic button following the national team’s successive Test thrashings at the h...
THE unanimous decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is unambiguous: India’s unilateral withdrawal from the Indus Waters Treaty is invalid. This is a moral and legal victory for...
LAST week’s horrific fire tragedy at the Pims’ nursery has elicited a flurry of responses from the state. Inquiries have been launched, officials have faced the axe, and pledges have been made to ...
ORGANISED hate against the marginalised has defined Indian politics under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged India to address hate spe...
IT has been six months since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran — a costly misadventure that remains far from being resolved. In fact, the threat of renewed hostilities is ever-present, de...
AN abundance of good fortune has landed a 46-year-old barrister, Syed Iftikhar Ali Gillani, in the hot seat. He will serve as the 17th prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, having been elected to ...
OFFICIALS often state that Pakistan’s untapped mineral wealth can be a potential ‘game-changer’. The planning minister’s recent comment while speaking to a think tank in New York, offers more ...