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Or will 2024 simply slide into 2025? The world, after a poignant 2024 in which it was raked up at many levels, will be reaping the fruits of its...
The battle on both sides has multidimensional objectives. The PTI in the short term wants Imran Khan released; the Government has very little...
President-elect Donald Trump said this in France as news rolled in of Syrian regime folding before the rebel onslaught of largely the HTS - a group...
I have followed a Pakistani travel blogger for over two years now. Abrar Hassan is a naturalised German, an aeronautical engineer by profession but...
It may sound harsh but is worthy of introspection: forces meant to fight at the border and beyond to enhance their perimeter of security when...
First the 'we'. These are the status quo practitioners; incumbents who are part of an order and unwilling to change for personal, tribal or...
Travelling between Dubai and Abu Dhabi one cannot but be reminded of how Pakistani labour and professional support has raised the region from a...
Rather than find adulatory or denigrative classifications to the mayhem in the Middle East, Tom Friedman of the NYT clubs the two sides as the '...
Why the turmoil of contestation? We seem to be fighting for credibility and democracy, the two binding pillars of the state-society construct. If a...
Baloch restiveness is as old as Pakistan. Initially the State of Kalat, which was an independent entity under the British took its time to accede...
The last two years in Pakistan have been anarchic for a more explanatory term. A weaker nation would have rolled over. A poly-crisis of political...
The two principal political protagonists were well defined, except when the 82-year-old President Biden decided against running for reelection...
There are numerous lessons to learn from the Bangladesh experience. A common history may not necessarily mean that the two people who were one have...
To what end? Imran Khan banned TLP, and it is occupying the nerve-centre on the main arteries of Pindi and Islamabad; all simply look on, quite...