Opinion
Year in Review 2010: Militancy and the fight for internal security
by: Erum Haider
Date: October 31, 2013
Pakistan’s struggle for internal security entered a new phase in 2010 as the US and its allies increased pressure on Afghanistan with the announcement of the deployment of 30,000 troops...
Opinion
Policies Without Direction
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: September 10, 2013
Anyone in Pakistan who dabbles in the lexicon of urbanomics will be the first to admit one of two things: that cities are like living organisms that need sophisticated delivery...
Opinion
Spitballing the endgame
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: March 26, 2013
The picture is depressingly familiar: with another warm-weather fighting season upon Afghanistan, efforts to crowd-source an international fall guy for a war gone south is disingenuously pitting public opinion against...
Opinion
Jinnah’s Pakistan cannot be abandoned
by: Raza Rumi
Date: August 11, 2012
This August has been cruel. Haunting images of Sindhi Hindus, essential to the cultural reality and demography of the province, leaving the country [i] shook those who believe that Pakistan belongs...
Opinion
Anatomy of a Gang Rape
by: Urooj Zia
Date: April 25, 2011
After almost nine years spanning multiple courts of Pakistan, gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai’s legal battle against her rapists finally came to an end on 21 April 2011 in the apex...
Opinion
Pakistan: A Transitional Polity
by: Raza Rumi
Date: August 18, 2010
Pakistan’s existentialist crisis is no longer a strictly Pakistani issue. Its potential repercussions have emerged as a cornerstone of global debates on regional stability and international concerns on terrorism and...
