Naveed Shafi Khaja
In our society children are considered as an inseparable part of individual and societal existence. A married couple without a child feels...
BY KENAN MALIK
When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected...
BY DR AKMAL HUSSAIN
Over the last three centuries following the Industrial Revolution, the stress on the earth’s ecosystem has been building up and may...
By Ramzy Baroud
Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli...
BY AJAY GUDAVARTHY
Smaller States have been the new political mode of addressing basic issues that were otherwise left unresolved. However, fighting for a new...
BY TALAT MASOOD
Pakistan’s current leadership is, perhaps, unaware that when it shows camaraderie and weakness towards dealing with militants, it is sleepwalking the country...
BY WILLIAM BLUM
When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try...
BY ADVOCATE ZAHID ALI
The guidelines recently provided by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court for applying Muslim Personal Law are proper, just and leading...
BY MUHAMMAD AMIR RANA
A transnational approach, flexible operational frameworks and interagency collaboration between traditional law enforcement agencies and other government institutions are considered the...
BY SHEKHAR GUPTA
Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his residence, that...
BY ABBAS NASIR
WHEN Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan makes statements such as a “majority of Taliban” are pro-Pakistan and pro-peace, who’d be surprised to find...
BY DR LUDWIG WATZAL
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual...
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
‘Scorched earth’ is the kindest phrase to describe the approach of the last budget (rather, vote-on-account) of India’s United Progressive Alliance in...
BY BRIAN LOFFLER
Once in a lifetime a truly game-changing event reshapes global society. Think back to 1833 when the British Parliament finally bowed to...
BY JAWED NAQVI
India’s feisty Dalit leader Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar scarcely finds place in our historical consciousness, having been airbrushed from much of the discourse...
BY SHAHID JAVED BURKI
Pakistan, ever reliant on external financial assistance, faces a very different international situation as the government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz...