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America's Wars Of Revenge

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...

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The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

KP Assembly passes Rs1.7tr budget as opposition withdraws all cut motions

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed the Rs1.7 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year after members of the opposition...

31.05.2024 40

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

Opposition complains reports on NFC Award not produced in KP Assembly

PESHAWAR: Opposition members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday said as its constitutional obligation, the provincial government should...

30.05.2024 40

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

Could Pakistan Turn Towards The United States Again?

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...

28.05.2024 50

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

KP opposition rejects budget as unrealistic

PESHAWAR: Opposition members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday rejected the provincial government’s budget for the next fiscal year as...

28.05.2024 30

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

Pesco wants MPA booked for ‘forcibly resuming power supply’

PESHAWAR: The Pesh­a­war Electric Supply Com­pany (Pesco) on Saturday filed a police complaint against PTI lawmaker Fazl Elahi for allegedly...

26.05.2024 20

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

Do We Need Protectionism For Pakistan's Auto Industry?

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...

21.05.2024 30

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Expenditure, recruitment by caretakers to be probed: Gandapur

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Friday announced a probe into the financial and administrative moves of the...

18.05.2024 20

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

KP Assembly passes Rs1.456tr budget for outgoing fiscal

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed a Rs1.456 trillion budget for the current fiscal year. During a sitting chaired by...

17.05.2024 50

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

Snuffing Out The Local Automobile Sector

The possibility that Pakistani society might undergo the process of deindustrialization before being fully industrialized to start with seems to be...

16.05.2024 40

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

KP treasury to approve budget despite reservations

PESHAWAR: Treasury members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday announced that they would approve budget for the current financial year...

14.05.2024 60

Dawn Business

Umer Farooq

The Military In Pakistan's Political Fray

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...

09.05.2024 80

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Will Washington Be Able To Avert A Crisis In South Asia?

Interstate war and conflict have returned to the mainstream of international politics after years of scholars suggesting that they were confined to...

06.05.2024 20

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Mining dynamics

PAKISTAN and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stand at a pivotal crossroads, with both countries aiming to build their respective mineral economies. One...

04.05.2024 100

Dawn

Umer Farooq

The Erosion Of Islamic Modernity And Indian Secularism

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...

30.04.2024 30

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Dissecting The Pakistan-Iran Relationship

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,...

25.04.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Democracy As A Security Imperative

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...

18.04.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

An Iran-Israel War Would Destabilize Already Fragile South Asia

The evolving geopolitical environment in the Middle East points towards the possibility of a wider conflict. What are the lessons for Pakistan’s...

15.04.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Cancerous Ecosystem Of Terror On Pakistan's Western Border

Pakistani society is faced with a potent and multifaceted terror threat from its western border. The threat itself cannot be summed up simply by...

12.04.2024 60

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

This Is Not The Last Time We Will Hear About The Islamic State In Khorasan

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...

27.03.2024 8

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Pakistan Needs National Consensus

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...

23.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

What Happens If Russia Decides To Use Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine?

On November 7, 2022, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto unequivocally criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated threats...

11.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Minerals economy

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....

07.03.2024 100

Dawn

Umer Farooq

Pakistan's Ongoing Battle With Extremism

In Pakistan, terrorism and militancy is mutating itself into something much more dreadful.  A life threatening situation recently developed in a busy...

04.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Power Of The Clergy And The Challenge Of Political Modernity

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...

26.02.2024 20

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Is The Military's Interventionism In Politics Now Too Dangerous To Be Continued?

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...

14.02.2024 30

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Hollowing Out Of State Capacity In Pakistan

The Pakistani state’s capacity to deliver services—health, education, security and other civic and social amenities—to its masses has been...

10.02.2024 20

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Military Establishment's Hardheadedness Will Lead Pakistan To The Wilderness

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...

31.01.2024 40

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

We Will All Pay The Price For America's Follies

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...

28.01.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Pakistan Has No Need For Macho Men

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...

24.01.2024 50

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Fear Of Deterrence Failure Governs Pakistan's Security Paradigm

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...

19.01.2024 20

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Maulana Fazlur Rehman's Mission To Rein In The Afghan Taliban

Maulana Fazlur Rehman is the quintessential opportunist of Pakistani politics. His opportunism fits ideally with the pragmatism of Pakistan’s part...

15.01.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Are Pakistan And India Engaged In A Full Fledged Arms Race?

The Indian subcontinent's military history is littered with situations where the introduction of new weapon systems has caused military instability...

08.01.2024 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

2023 Was Haunted By Pakistan's Foreign Policy Failures

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...

28.12.2023 8

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Pakistan's Foreign Policy Catch-22 In The Sino-American Rivalry

The American strategic community and foreign policy elites have formulated a new strategic concept to deter China’s aggressive military posturing in...

19.12.2023 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Taking Stock Of Pakistan's Security Landscape

Pakistan’s military and security doctrine continues to be specifically focused on tackling the internal enemy—terrorists, militants and...

16.12.2023 8

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

What Can We Learn From Bangladesh's Success In Family Planning?

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...

12.12.2023 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

The Post 9/11 Consensus Has Stretched Too Far

US foreign policy elites are compulsively addicted to exaggerating the threats to American security that exist around the world. This is not a recent...

08.12.2023 10

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

Our Dysfunctional Politics Will Squander Away Pakistan's Demographic Dividend

Pakistani society is experiencing an advantage in demographic terms that economists dub the “demographic dividend,” a phenomenon which is often...

05.12.2023 8

The Friday Times

Umer Farooq

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