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Umer FarooqNaya Daur |
The Urdu language has produced three great poets—Ghalib, Allama Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. All three have written in the Persian language. In fact,...
I can pinpoint Benazir Bhutto’s rise as political leader in the wake of her 1986 historic welcome at Lahore Airport, as the time when I started to...
The evolving geopolitical environment in the Middle East points towards the possibility of a wider conflict. What are the lessons for Pakistan’s...
Pakistani society is faced with a potent and multifaceted terror threat from its western border. The threat itself cannot be summed up simply by...
IS-K now poses a regional security threat to all of Afghanistan’s neighbors, including Pakistan, Iran, the Central Asian States and China. This is...
Our entire social and political order is indebted to Captain Ahmed Badar—a young officer in the Pakistan Army who laid down his life while fighting...
On November 7, 2022, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto unequivocally criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated threats...
AS the dust settles from the recent elections and the formation of government, it’s clear that the previous coalition is taking the reins of power....
In Pakistan, terrorism and militancy is mutating itself into something much more dreadful. A life threatening situation recently developed in a busy...
It was sometime in mid-1994 that Justice Saad Saood Jan invited me to his chamber in the newly constructed Supreme Court Building in Islamabad. I was...
What part of the military's role in Pakistan’s political system makes the system dysfunctional? Or what part of the military's role brings the...
The Pakistani state’s capacity to deliver services—health, education, security and other civic and social amenities—to its masses has been...
On the basis of available evidence, we can safely conclude that Imran Khan has emerged as the third political leader in Pakistan’s history who has...
In 2009, when I was working as the Islamabad correspondent for a Karachi based political magazine, I was asked by my editor to work on a story about...
Bilawal Bhutto is the complete opposite of Imran Khan: Khan was aggressive as a political leader, at least when he was a free man. Bilawal Bhutto...
Pakistan is perhaps a unique country insofar that it has faced preemptive strikes or felt the fear of a pre-emptive strike from countries as diverse...
Maulana Fazlur Rehman is the quintessential opportunist of Pakistani politics. His opportunism fits ideally with the pragmatism of Pakistan’s part...
The Indian subcontinent's military history is littered with situations where the introduction of new weapon systems has caused military instability...
One of the most damning failures of Pakistan’s foreign policy in the year 2023 is the utter helplessness of the security establishment to compel the...
The American strategic community and foreign policy elites have formulated a new strategic concept to deter China’s aggressive military posturing in...
Pakistan’s military and security doctrine continues to be specifically focused on tackling the internal enemy—terrorists, militants and...
According to World Bank estimates, the Global Fertility Rate (TFR) of women has decreased from about 5 births per woman to 2.4. However, progress in...
US foreign policy elites are compulsively addicted to exaggerating the threats to American security that exist around the world. This is not a recent...
Pakistani society is experiencing an advantage in demographic terms that economists dub the “demographic dividend,” a phenomenon which is often...
The Western world is unequivocal in its support of Israel in the ongoing Gaza conflict. This much has been clearly demonstrated, when Western...
The military government of General Pervez Musharraf started work in 2002 on a plan to co-opt the country's religious clergy at the grassroots level...
It is strange to see the American and British ambassadors conducting normal diplomatic business in Pakistan. They are rather conducting politically...
Over the last six decades, Pakistan has witnessed four military governments, and the political situation has remained uncertain and in flux. We as a...
It has become fashionable in Pakistan’s political circles to speak about the link between the country's exponential rate of population growth and...
Few days ago, I got the chance to discuss the Gaza situation with a group of teenage female students. Let me describe the persona of these female...
I have always felt a deep-seated repulsion towards Sheikh Rashid’s style of politics. In him, I have always seen a clownishly non-serious...
Why would the establishment rig the electoral process for a person, from whom it perceives a threat in the first place? Apart from political...
Modern military organization is a western invention. Drills, synchronized physical training and battalions as a basic unit of organizational structure...
The Taliban regime in Kabul doesn’t face any significant military threat to its survival in Afghanistan. It is militarily and politically, largely...
Giulio M. Gallarotti, Professor of Political Science at Wesleyan University, wrote a book in 2021 titled “The Power Curse”—in which he outlined...
In a political environment where anti-military posturing used to pay political dividends, Pakistan’s political elite’s mindset is fossilized. To...