The proposed talks with the Taliban were in many ways a non-starter in the first place.

The NGO has been providing critical counselling and legal support to rape victims in Pakistan.

We must hope all the new MPAs are ready to prove their worth.

The loss of Waliur Rehman comes as a big blow to the TTP, the biggest since the death of Baitullah Mehsud.

Sharafata died on the spot, becoming the third polio vaccinator to be killed in Peshawar.

Governments missing its budgetary targets has become something of a political tradition.

The removal of a NAB chairman is no small matter; raises for the future the possibility of many complications.

Pakistan currently spends less than one per cent of its GDP on health.

Hundreds of Hazara Shias have been killed this year in brutal attacks.

Despite the hype created around the proposed talks with the TTP, it may just turn out to be an exercise in futility.