Opinion & Analysis

The judges are in the dock. Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have moved the Supreme Court praying that several administrative acts of their own court are in...

The US State Department's 2025 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are out — and what they omit says more than what they include. Once a respected barometer of global rights...

Pakistani children are hunted everywhere, every single day in plain sight while those tasked with their protection shield the predators lurking in classrooms, madrassas, living rooms, neighborhoods, workplaces and now...

In a significant and potentially disruptive move, the US House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), instructing the Secretary of Defense to...

This week, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia forged a defence pact that redraws the region's security map, and it was triggered by a stunning miscalculation. The foreign policy of any country...

Extractive and wasteful water use has created a severe crisis for the Indus delta, where the Indus River flows into the Arabian Sea. This natural confluence of outflowing freshwater and...

Re-reading Iqbal, the philosopher-poet of the Urdu and Persian tongue, is not only a pleasure, but also an act nurturing a fear, that of lilting the heart of a fire...

Dear Faisal Anwar, "Under a CommonSky", unlike the cliché associated with the word 'common' specifically when it comes from diasporic intelligentsia*, is a profound example of relational aesthetics or digital...

If there is one book that I would recommend to my readers in these confusing and tumultuous times in global affairs — a rule-based order has run its course without a...

The recent deportation of 22 Pakistanis who misleadingly posed as a football team to enter Japan seems almost farcical at first; but in reality, it exposes the extreme lengths to...