For a while now I have been willing to write on an issue that is quite personal to me. Actually, it is not an issue at all, rather what I call a phenomenon, or more ...
Dr Rajiv Dhavan, senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India, reminds me of Atticus Finch, the courageous lawyer in Harper Lee’s famous novel ‘To kill a mocking bird’ (based on the actual Scottsboro case), ...
In our short political history, only Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was accorded the opportunity through the unfortunate turn of events to build a legacy for civilian supremacy, but self-assured hubris led to his downfall, writes Najeeb ...
The political economy literature strongly advocates for the ‘state capacity’ and an autonomous bureaucracy to promote the objectives of a ‘developmental state’. The literature also states that in the case of Pakistan, there has been ...
Prosecution in the case of blasphemy accused lecturer Junaid Hafeez is using delaying tactics to buy time and swing the case in their favour, Naya Daur has learnt. Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya ...
Umer Farooq raises the question of whether Bhutto’s claim of enemy troops amassing on the eastern and western borders was linked to the anti-Ahmadi agitation in 1974. On July 10, 1974, New York Times printed an ...
It was partially a rainy November of Gayana’s rain-forest in 1978 when the whole world was shook. The first photographs of swollen bodies of nearly a thousand Americans laying around the main court hall of ...
Ahmed Faruqui writes about Pakistan Air Force’s air combats against the air forces of India, Israel and the Soviet Union and how the PAF interacted with adversarial air forces during these encounters. The incident at ...
Ishtiaq Ahmed analyses the tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of revocation of Article 370 in Occupied Kashmir and discusses the possibility of a war between the nuclear-armed neighbours. I have been listening ...
Sahibzada Khan discusses whether the upsurge in Kashmir can potentially upset the balance of power and set the beginning of a New World Order The issue of Kashmir has created a debate at the ...
