Opinion & Analysis

There is some consolation on the economic front as Pakistan's locus standi stands improved on the credit index. Moody's, one of the world's top three rating agencies based in New...

As the country marked its 78th Independence Day, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa witnessed a night of coordinated attacks. In 13 separate incidents, gunmen and grenade-wielding assailants targeted police stations, checkpoints and patrols across...

In a world where alliances are increasingly transactional, the counterterrorism partnership between Pakistan and the United States remains an evolving, if at times uneasy, example of strategic necessity. Whereas public...

Are we in for a radical change in Pak-Afghan relations after an unprecedented move by proponents of the former Northern Alliance, many of whom now embody the National Resistance Front...

Independence was truly understood by those who paid the cost of freedom and lost their closest family members. They knew that liberty demands sacrifice, and the value of being free...

It was a unique disruption. For a nation whose birth witnessed the displacement of 10-12 million on religious lines and the broad-day murder of 1- 2 million, political disruption usually...

The bullets we fire in celebration often return as bullets of mourning. Once again, Karachi's skies on Independence Day rang not just with fireworks, but with gunfire, claiming innocent lives...

The recent protests in Shangla, where local youth activists blocked highways demanding safer mines, are a desperate cry from communities burying their dead. Over 20 miners from Shangla have died...

Apartheid is a term used to describe the systemic oppression, segregation and marginalisation of a specific group of people based on race, ethnic or religious identity. The South African apartheid...

For Pakistan, a stable Afghanistan is essential. The two neighbours, tied by longstanding history and geography, have to choose between cooperation (which brings stability) or suspicion (which keeps both sides...