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![]() Umer FarooqNaya Daur |
I went to Lahore for studies, three years after Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s demise in 1983. The first book I bought was Faiz’s, “Nuskha-e-Hae-e-Wafa”....
I have a fear, and this fear is not the fear of the unknown. It is fear of the known. I know that the Pakistani state is standing on a very narrow...
Pakistani society and the political forces within it will have to bury behind the trait of self-destruction, as the last sun of 2024 sets and as we...
The use of Artificial Intelligence in nuclear decision-making and targeting of the enemy’s nuclear assets is no longer merely a subject of science...
Between November 24 and 26, 2024, the government security forces, and Law enforcement agencies used firearms against PTI protests. There is now...
I am of the firm and considered the opinion that we should not let Imran Khan and his popularity among the common people of Pakistan go waste....
From 1986-1987, the Pakistani military and the political elites were in a kind of ecstasy about the nuclear deterrence they had acquired because of...
For decades, I have flirted with the idea that the state is an evil — an exploitation machine which acts as a tool in the hands of the dominant...
PAKISTAN has turned to two US law firms to fend off Tehran’s penalty claim over the delayed gas pipeline project with Iran. Does this sound...
After reading the military's press release on the Australian Army Chief's visit, I was struck by a singular thought that there is a strong chance...
Historically speaking, the centres of political power always leave a deep imprint on the culture of the society it presides over. The government,...
What is common between Khadija Shah — who was accused of participating in the vandalism that was witnessed on May 9, 2023 — Intezar Hussain...
When I read " Reading Lolita in Tehran " — a marvellous book by Azar Nafisi, an Iranian author—in 2019, It reconfirmed my belief that a deep...
The stiff-necked Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's short trip to Islamabad did not raise any expectations about the resumption of the...
The assassinations of one resistance leader in Lebanon and Gaza after another by Israeli intelligence and military indicate one uncomfortable...
I was there when, in the first week of October 1993—a few days before parliamentary elections— Nawaz Sharif told a jam-packed Liaquat Bagh that...
The killing fields of Gaza are a turning point in history. The first two decades of the 21st century witnessed two major wars. In the US invasion...
In February 2023, the US-based think-tank Nonproliferation Policy Education Center organised a war game to explore the possibility of a conflict...
Sometime at the start of this month, Western media and its tributaries in the global and social media started praising and publicising in one voice...
In the past two months, Pakistani think-tank, the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) —a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
The social and political base of Pakistan's political system is very narrow. Besides, the fortunes of our political system have not been on the...
Imagine Vladamir Lenin being approached by the Russian Tsar's intelligence chief, asking him to postpone his revolutionary activities for a day or...
American diplomatic historian McMahon recalls that in 1954, the then-Finance Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (who later served as Pakistan's Prime...
IN these times, when the protesters of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) are demanding fundamental rights in Balochistan, it may appear...
For the past decade and a half, Pakistan's military planners and foreign policy strategists have thought about and planned for two developments in...
How much of the Pakistan military’s current political quandary, and the bad press they are getting in the status quo, is a result of the...
In a new development Pakistani military has started dubbing the fighters and militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Khwarij, in...
Lieutenant General (R) Faiz Hameed is a typical character in Pakistan’s political history. There is nothing unique or exceptional about him; he...
Bangladesh today is the archetype of a Muslim, South Asian, post-colonial state. Mass protest has been followed by a military intervention; this...
Imran Khan is now engaging in the same opportunistic sloganeering, along the old theme of, “I am criticizing the individuals (read Army Chief) and...
India’s government leaders were visibly perturbed when, on February 27, 2019, the Pakistan Air Force managed to shoot down the IAF’s MiG-21 that...
Someone from the PTI recently declared that Nawaz Sharif was on the wrong side of history. That is not entirely incorrect. But Sharif is not alone....
There are three actors in Pakistan’s political arena which can make things happen. The first is the military, which along with the intelligence...
Pakistani society has just emerged out of a civil war like situation, amidst the increasingly divisive nature of its political and social life. In...