The 5th of January commemorates the anniversary of Resolution 47 of the United Nations Security Council. This resolution sought to organise a referendum to provide the people of Kashmir with the option of joining either Pakistan or India.
Jammu and Kashmir came…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a transformative project, which holds enormous potential for transforming the lives of the people of Pakistan and region. The most important development project undertaken in Balochistan is the Gwadar Port, which was operationalized on 14 November…
China and Pakistan have a trial and tribulation trajectory, and thus the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor i.e. CPEC has tales to tell. If an idiom is reworked, it is like “the operation was successful, but the patient is in coma!” Coma is tantamount…
The most powerful institution in Pakistan has had a change of guard, with the baton of command handed over to the new Chief. The appointment of COAS in Pakistan always evokes a heated debate amongst the political pundits and the security Cassandras…
Recently, the Government of Pakistan shared a dossier containing “details and evidence” of New Delhi’s role in a deadly car bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore in 2021 which killed innocent civilians, as well as other acts of terrorism.
Hina Rabbani…
c This is not a stand-alone incident in recent weeks; an organized pattern is emerging in the country, which may have far-reaching implications for the region and beyond.
A week earlier, Pakistan’s head of mission in Kabul, Obaid Nizamani, escaped an assassination…
Participation in the “Bay of Bengal Conversation” (21-23 November) under the auspices of the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), Bangladesh, provided a rare opportunity to visit Dhaka for the first time. It was an exhilarating experience with mixed feelings of déjà vu…
The age-old practice of chronicling the social and cultural worlds around us as stories has evolved over centuries to take multiple forms. There was a time people narrated anecdotes and epics to one another huddled around bonfires. In my childhood, my nani jaan told…
Nizam-e-Maikada Bigra Hua Hai Is Kadar Saqi;
Usi Ko Jaam Milta Hai Jise Peena Nahi Aata
(Anand Narayan Mulla) [The configuration is so disfigured that only those who do not possesses a remedy are accessed with it)
Ten cents for the poet,…
On November 30, a suicide bomber associated with Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacked a police vehicle in Quetta, killing four, underscoring the resurgent threat of the group.
On November 28, the TTP formally declared an end to the ceasefire with Islamabad amid an already ongoing…