Opinion

The current exercise is hosting up to 2,500 personnel and 100 aircraft from around the globe

Parts of Punjab particularly in the South are also reeling from the disaster

Climate change is here and is slapping on our faces as we hold our eyes tightly closed to shun it as a nightmare

The most problematic is the developing situation in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s dilemma of a separate homeland is much more convoluted.

The devastating floods in Pakistan right now obey certain laws of science, which are anything but chaotic

Nuclear weapons pose a grave threat to the future of humanity — even worse than climate change

The country is devastated by some of the worst floods since its independence

In Pakistan’s context, power is applied negatively for maximising one’s authority and wealth

The future face of Al Qaeda is likely to be different from its present one

The coalition government has revoked NAB’s jurisdiction to investigate any corruption cases under Rs500m

There were early signs and wake-up calls

An ominous trend of using agriculture land for non-cultivation purpose puts future food productivity at risk

The new CM Pervaiz Elahi has a different strategy in mind

The idea that people of colour are more vulnerable to environmental hazards needs to be qualified

The governments began borrowing thrusting the poor nation deep into debt

We are doomed to fall into the same traps and make same mistakes within the lap of decades

Pakistan has a huge reserve of 186 billion tons of coal

Israel was created for the Jews who had run away from the oppression they were facing all around the world

Emerging technologies tend to produce technology pessimism and technology optimism

The speakers raised their demands with the ‘state’ rather than the ‘government’

The recent heatwaves in the country have heightened public awareness of the growing threat posed by climate change

Pakistan enjoyed an excellent relationship with the US being characterised “as the most allied ally”

I have severe health problems that, if not cured, might prove fatal

The elevated US inflation rate is bound to have worldwide impact

Climate change is a real and an existential threat to humanity

Thousands of people have died and or gone missing and millions displaced in the forsaken Sairaiki belt

States would not let tech firms rule their sphere of influence without constraints

The current ruling elite needs to heed the lessons of history and change course to pave the way for general elections

This Indian policy is not new. It has been continuously adjusted to changing geo-political realities over the years

Like the Nazis, the RSS limited its membership to those who believed in its very restrictive ideology

Our system needs to reform itself from the core and we need to talk to killers and rapists to study their triggers

Variations emerging out of different historical and cultural evolutionary tracks

A software engineer by profession who set up an alternative news forum, aptly called Alt News

A Pakistani TV host claims that this is no more a country for ordinary people to live in as ordinary man has no rights

On 15th August 2021, the Biden administration ventured on its haphazard military withdrawal from Afghanistan

Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, was killed by two hellfire missiles fired from a Reaper drone on a Sunday morning

Perceptions, narratives, projections, and spin all exist at a right angle to reality

The problem of lies and false narratives has been compounded in the present era of technology

What Pakistan can learn from Asia’s extraordinary policymakers

It all started with Maryam’s opposition to the fixed tax on traders through the electricity bills

The concept of human security was first articulated within the UNDP’s Human Development Report in 1994

If you were born in the early fifties, you would have grown up in simpler time

What the Biden administration has been saying about Afghan money is next to ridiculous

Construction of BHUs, trauma centres, burn centres and drugs shops in the vicinity of CPEC projects

Imran Khan’s frequent and unwarranted reference to the ‘neutrals’

Girls bear harassment at the hands of male patients – and doctors too

The militants have transnational agendas beyond the control of local tribes

The sanitation workers of Pakistan are treated with cruelty, inhumanity and indignity

What is critical is that a balance between expenditure on defence and development should be maintained