Priyantha Kumara was my country’s proud foreign worker. He hailed from Sri Lanka, and practised a faith alien to many of us. Those were his brief but illustrative credentials, as he ably supervised hundreds of workers at a factory in Sialkot. When…

The Taliban have been in power for almost 100 days; a timeline often used to test the nerve of governance. Since their storming into Kabul on August 15, on the heels of the world superpower’s exit, they have played their cards close…

Mutual suspicions, political ill-will and global pressure has kept them apart. From RCD to IPI pipeline, it is tale of broken promises Pakistan-Iran relations have remained mired in half-hearted initiatives, coupled with misgivings and suspicions. Notwithstanding the fact that they share more…

Pakistan has evolved into two segments: the ultra-rich and the middle class Are Pakistanis willing for a change is an irrelevant question! They have already voted for a manifesto of change, and keep their fingers-crossed to realise a New Pakistan. But the…

The India that I used to visit in all humility as an academician, journalist and one who was eager to explore from where my ancestors dwelled is lost somewhere. What is today is a toxic state with a blushing sense of otherness,…

Islamabad nurses no regional designs. Its clout with China and Afghanistan should be taken as an asset in realpolitik. Mark Twain, the greatest American humorist, said, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Though he lived and died before World…

Nurturing a new national narrative of Pakistan is up for debate these days. National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf brought to the fore its salient credentials, at a national conference recently, by illustrating that it has to be proactive, unapologetic and pragmatic.…

Pakistanis are apparently the only nation in the Westphalian state-system who talk of elections day in and day out, but do not go to polls on D-day. This is why the turnout since the first general election in the 70’s has never…

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s rise to the highest pinnacle was for a purpose. He was neither an alternate politician, nor one who wanted to ride the saddle to taste power. What made him a heart throb for the electorate was his agenda…

The post-withdrawal era has posed opportunities and challenges at home and abroad alike. The revulsion-cum-revolution, though peaceful in essence, on Pakistan’s western frontiers and the Taliban set-up has pitched Pakistan in a leadership role in the region and beyond. For the first…