Opinion
‘JI President Sherry Rehman asks if Islamabad can Leverage the China-Iran Opportunity’
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: July 26, 2015
As the big global strategic picture shifts on its axis, Pakistan has opportunity knocking in two broad gradients, if not more. The only worry is that even if the knocks...
Opinion
Hard Talk
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: July 18, 2015
There was always going to be a lot riding on the first direct meeting between the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) and the Afghan Taliban. Two years after Hamid Karzai flew...
Opinion
Bring back the Moratorium
by: Reema Omer
Date: June 19, 2015
Pakistan has executed more than 170 people since it discarded the country’s informal six-year moratorium on the death penalty. At risk of imminent execution are a further 400 people that...
Opinion
Beyond Highways and Corridors
by: Safwan A. Khan
Date: June 3, 2015
When the federal government confessed to committing a ‘typo’ in the official economic growth rate figure announced last year, it didn’t come as a surprise to many who have now...
Opinion
Bus to Islamabad
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 28, 2015
When Indian Defense Minister Mannohar Parrikar spoke of ‘neutralising terrorists through terrorists,’ on a private news channel last week, his comments threw into sharp relief the time warp that the...
Opinion
Long Road to Peace
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 9, 2015
The war may have been won, but Afghanistan’s warm-weather fighting season is just getting started. As the Afghan Taliban fan out into the northern province of Kunduz, looking to take...
Opinion
Changing State of Play
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: February 26, 2015
When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed in Beijing earlier this month, he drove directly from the airport to meet his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. The meeting – less than...
Opinion
Not out of the Woods, Yet
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 25, 2014
Days after the US-Pakistan Defence Consultative Group’s meeting last month, Congress quietly green-signaled the National Defence Authorisation Act 2015. The new bill includes an extension of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF)...
Opinion
Childhood Under Attack
by: Madeeha Ansari
Date: December 19, 2014
For a while, the silence following Zarb-e-Azb had been unnerving. Then,the apparent success in quelling terror began to be taken for granted, and national attention was diverted to dharnas and...
Opinion
Polio: A Policy Predicament
by: Palvashay Sethi
Date: December 8, 2014
The government's response to Pakistan’s impending polio crisis has been near negligible and characterised by apathy. The Pakistani public and children are especially at risk as the government seems unable...
