Opinion & Analysis

Education in Pakistan remains locked in outdated traditions: blackboards, rows of students sitting silently, rote memorization and teachers insisting on handwritten "fair copies". Examinations revolve around crammed answers reproduced in...

Fear played an important role in the development of human civilisation. From fear of the unknown to fear of the known, humanity has struggled to overcome different variants of fears....

Over a decade after it was unveiled, the Vision 2025 today lies in tatters. It had promised an industrial revolution, driven by manufacturing, innovation and a transition to knowledge economy....

In 1999, I was given a cassette tape containing an audio documentary by a friend in uniform. It was called The Shadows and was a Muslim version of every anti-Masonic...

Sohail Afridi has been sent in to bat as Ali Amin Gandapur stands retired hurt. This change of guard in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is likely to have wide-ranging political ramifications. At the...

After nearly two years of relentless bombardment, ruin and unimaginable loss, a sliver of light has emerged from the rubble of Gaza. Yesterday, the first phase of a ceasefire agreement...

The recent killing of three police officers, responding to a domestic assault in Pennsylvania, was not an isolated incident but part of a persistent national crisis. It followed several other...

Winston Churchill once said, "The price of greatness is responsibility." Listening to Donald Trump at the United Nations, one could not help but notice how little responsibility accompanied the great...

On his election to his second term as the President, Donald Trump said, "The world has gone crazy." Eight months down into his tenure at the helm, the news is,...

The Pak-US relations have reached a new high under President Trump's second tenure after remaining in the Obama-Biden trough for over a decade. The reasons for this new-found bonhomie and...