Opinion Battlefield Islamabad What was proclaimed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders as a peaceful march on Islamabad to demand, among... Updated 08 Oct, 2024 08:37am
Opinion Unending conflict Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah along with 20 of his commanders in a strike in... Updated 01 Oct, 2024 07:24am
Opinion Ill-conceived gambit The government has shot itself in the foot by launching an ill-conceived and hurried attempt to bring in a spate of... Published 17 Sep, 2024 06:33am
Opinion International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances Enforced Disappearances (EDs) have been frequently used as a strategy to spread fear and terror in a society,... Published 03 Sep, 2024 06:27am
Opinion The plight of the minorities August 11, 2024 was ‘celebrated’ as Minorities Day, as has been the custom now since 2009. The date, August 11, was... Updated 13 Aug, 2024 07:38am
Opinion Bangladesh coup The more than one month long agitation in Bangladesh against the quota policy has finally ended in a military coup.... Published 06 Aug, 2024 06:40am
Opinion Here we go again Here we go again with another military operation against the religious extremist terrorists that afflict this... Published 25 Jun, 2024 06:42am
Opinion The tide is turning The Indian elections are an indicator of the fact that Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) hubris... Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
Opinion Predictable decline of ANC The results of South Africa’s general elections have delivered a stunning blow to the ruling African National... Published 04 Jun, 2024 06:28am
Opinion External-internal conundrums Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has demanded in a press conference that the Afghan Taliban government arrest,... Updated 28 May, 2024 06:01am
Opinion Ordinary Pakistanis are not citizens It has been an eventful week, with more than its just share of tragedies. While the genocidal Israeli war on the... Published 21 May, 2024 03:39am
Opinion Impasse Anniversaries can be of different kinds, some mere rituals, others more than a mere remembrance of things past. May... Published 14 May, 2024 05:18am
Opinion Wheat, wheat everywhere… The wheat crisis has thrown up a host of troubling questions that revolve around the persistent wisdom that in our... Published 07 May, 2024 06:05am
Opinion Rent a party Of late, the chorus of voices demanding ‘dialogue’ has grown to a virtual crescendo. This is understandable at one... Published 30 Apr, 2024 03:43am
Opinion Iran-Israel Russian Roulette The expected has happened. After Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, 2024 killed seven... Published 16 Apr, 2024 03:38am
Opinion ‘Frosty’ exchanges Perhaps it is appropriate that these lines are being written on April Fool’s Day. What lends this credence is the... Published 02 Apr, 2024 04:38am
Opinion Massacre in Russia The toll of the horrendous terrorist attack on March 23, 2024 at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s northern suburb... Updated 26 Mar, 2024 04:43am
Opinion A plethora of issues Normally one tries to focus on one critical issue that appears to be central when sitting down to pen these columns.... Published 19 Mar, 2024 04:53am
Opinion A tangled web indeed As could be anticipated, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf’s (PTI’s) protests on March 10, 2024 against alleged... Updated 12 Mar, 2024 05:09am
Opinion Challenges, challenges The shape of the post-election regime has been more or less settled, with the remaining Presidential election on... Published 05 Mar, 2024 03:09am
