THE intention appears to have been noble enough, but the manner in which the Punjab government set about trying to address the problem was bound to invite legal challenges. And this is precisely what ...
ONE swallow does not make a summer. Does it? The sale of PIA has fetched the government much praise — if not much cash. Simultaneously, it has stirred hopes that the first major privatisation in more ...
AFTER the opposition Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan stated last Sunday that it still believes dialogue was the way out of the present crisis, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was quick to reciprocate t...
TIES between Bangladesh and India are experiencing extreme turbulence, especially after the murder of prominent Bangladeshi student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, with his supporters and sympathisers claim...
TAKING stock of what remains an incredibly precarious security situation, the military’s top brass on Wednesday resolved to address the “nexus” between terrorism, crime, and “vested political interest...
PIA’S sale — the first major privatisation in nearly two decades — is being hailed as a historic achievement. Symbolically, it is. Substantively, it is far more complicated because it underscores Paki...
AFTER the weekend deliberations in the federal capital concluded with both the opposition and government camps calling for dialogue, some political ‘in-betweeners’ have also chimed in with helpful sug...
IT seems the political temperature in the federal capital fell by quite a few degrees this weekend. After weeks of fire and fury, which seems to have culminated this Saturday in a slate of fresh convi...
THE recent disruptions in the Chenab river flow show a clear pattern in which India has repeatedly manipulated its upstream position to exert pressure on Pakistan ever since New Delhi said it would su...
BANGLADESH has been rocked by spasms of violence after a student leader, who was shot in Dhaka recently, succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment in Singapore. Sharif Osman Hadi was a key f...