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The CM despite non-clearance from the security agency rushed to the hospital just after landing at Sehwan at about 1am

A moment to seize historic milestones

There's a need to develop a strong statistical base to get better knowledge of the state of society and economy

How could these passengers board in the first place?

Recent terrorist incidents have brought Pakistan’s policy of countering terrorism in sharp focus

Remembering the Lahore of the 90s makes me more sad than nostalgic

Lal Krishna Advani changed Indian politics with the Ram Janmabhoomi movement

Were the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb not temporary?

Lawmakers need to be reminded that they are answerable to the people

Media persons who cover violent events need to be aware of the risks to their life and limb

Pakistan is among the worst countries to live a life as a woman

Recent cataclysmic events have plunged our world into much turbulence

Who knew the issue of refugees would cause divisions in the ‘Free World’?

Political integration should happen politically, not through transitional development packages

There is little doubt that these attacks originated from, and were controlled by, handlers from across our borders

The core aim of Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad it appears is — eliminating residual and latent threat of terrorism

The Apex Committee has requested that the interior ministry lend about 2,000 rangers for between 60 and 90 days

The US administration will probably have to provide some form of a transparency rule for extractive industries

In the last 24 hours I have had to advise the CEO of an NGO I have worked closely with over the last 12 years

I have grown up to believe that [most] politicians and far-right religious conservatives explicitly hate women

Burhan Wani is dead but a new Kashmir is being born

Primates are possibly the species nearest to man in the animal world

Afghan officials refuse to look at the latest wave of terror in context of India’s “teach and bleed Pakistan” policy

Many experts argue that corruption ‘keeps the poor people in poverty’

It is no secret that we have differences with the US on several aspects of Afghan policy

My students and I, like millions of others around the world, love TED talks

We need to move away from the ‘Pakistani big brother’ rhetoric in the Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship

Our job of seeking the truth has become immensely difficult in face of a strategic communications industry

Pakistan needs to engage in constructive and meaningful dialogue with Afghanistan

His disastrous immigration policy was apparently rolled out without any real forethought or planning

Funding of International Organisations’ has been drafted by the Trump administration

The manner in which our country is being polarised is scary

Many thinkers in the Muslim world today question the validity of Samuel Huntington prediction about the future

I seldom read an article about Poland in the papers these days

If the depths of human misery measure darkness, Pakistan is in its darkest hour

The more harder India pushes its nationalism on to its population, the further away we send Kashmiris

Since 9/11, more Pakistani civilians and military personnel have been killed due to terrorist acts than from the US

Scope of making a tolerant society and reducing crime obviously goes beyond the role of legislation, jails and courts

The new wave of suicide bombings has so far taken a very heavy toll of lives in Pakistan

The name Shahbaz denotes a noble spirit. Qalandar was used by his followers to show his superior standing

Frequent transfers of civil servants have commonly been cited as a reason behind poor public sector performance

The world continues to lag miles behind its true economic potential

A cult around former President Obama and his wife is a strangely disturbing occurrence in the United States

Billionaire Erik Prince is the founder and owner of Blackwater

The lawmakers are mulling to redefine Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution of Pakistan

Over the last two months, I’ve been writing about clinical depression

Debate over the abolition of Fata as distinct administrative entity is creating ripples across the political spectrum

Insecurity is the ‘risk of something very bad happening’

These columns are snapshots of the life and times of an ordinary man living an ordinary life

Lahore attack is the latest example of the deadly connivance of non-state actors by those running the state