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Umer FarooqNaya Daur |
In the twenty-first century, it was the United States that established the tradition of waging war for revenge. Al-Qaeda carried out the 9/11 attacks...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed the Rs1.7 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year after members of the opposition...
PESHAWAR: Opposition members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday said as its constitutional obligation, the provincial government should...
In the last three years, South Asia has witnessed a rare development—from the shores of the Arabian Sea on Pakistan’s southern coast, up till the...
PESHAWAR: Opposition members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday rejected the provincial government’s budget for the next fiscal year as...
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) on Saturday filed a police complaint against PTI lawmaker Fazl Elahi for allegedly...
The debate over the prohibition of used cars is now rather old. Domestic auto manufacturers demand a prohibition on the import of used cars, as in...
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Friday announced a probe into the financial and administrative moves of the...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed a Rs1.456 trillion budget for the current fiscal year. During a sitting chaired by...
The possibility that Pakistani society might undergo the process of deindustrialization before being fully industrialized to start with seems to be...
PESHAWAR: Treasury members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday announced that they would approve budget for the current financial year...
Anyone who has a basic understanding of Pakistan’s political history could discern a clear and oft-repeated pattern in the DG ISPR’s latest press...
Interstate war and conflict have returned to the mainstream of international politics after years of scholars suggesting that they were confined to...
PAKISTAN and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stand at a pivotal crossroads, with both countries aiming to build their respective mineral economies. One...
Narendar Modi became persona non grata for the American liberals who wanted to pursue human rights as a foreign policy objective when news about the...
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...