Editorial

“We will hold rallies in 2028,” Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif exclaimed in an apparent dig at the recently-held PTI’s power show in Lahore as he emphasised the urgency of addressing the pledges made to the people. Fair enough, for he might have been a little late to realise this but the last few years have […]

Pakistan cricket community is still reeling from the aftermath of the deadly militant attack on the Sri Lankan team bus during a test match series in 2009, horrified by which several major international teams refused to tour the country out of security concerns. In March this year, a string of terrorist attacks targetting Chinese interests […]

With a record 39 candidates daring to put their names in the hat and the presidential election going to a historic second count (because no candidate managed to secure a clear majority), Sri Lanka finally chose Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday to lead its fragile economy away from the shadows of the worst crisis in […]

“Tsunami” or “PTI’s funeral,” the performance of yesterday’s much-awaited power show in Lahore, which former prime minister Imran Khan had described as “do or die” for his party, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder. Notwithstanding heated pressers by ministers and giving credit where it’s due, the Punjab government should be appreciated for […]

After an extraordinary two-stage attack involving thousands of walkie-talkies and pagers–injuring thousands of people and killing at least 37–rocked Lebanon this week, countries like Hungary, Bulgaria, Taiwan and Japan have garnered attention over links to Israel’s declaration of a new phase of war in the Middle East. Alleged reports of home solar energy systems blowing […]

India may wish everyone to believe it is still a secular democracy but given its prime minister Narendra Modi’s radical vision of establishing a Hindu nation, these attempts have begun to fall flat. That reservations on countless stories of terrorised Indian Muslims echoed from Iran, a country it shares strong bilateral relations with, not only […]

Nearly a week after a controversial “working weekend” in Islamabad sent shockwaves across the nation, politicians from both sides of the divide remain overwhelmed by the tragicomedy. As government’s ally Bilawal Bhutto Zardari insists the version of the “constitutional package” floating on television screens was “not real,” Opposition Leader Omar Ayub Khan is not in […]

A lot is happening on the Afghan front. If the resignation of Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, last week over alleged differences on mass deportations wasn’t enough for stakeholders to pay attention to their fast-failing stick approach, the recent controversy surrounding Afghan diplomats stationed in Peshawar might do the trick. Music or no […]

With only two months to go before the 29th UN Climate Change Conference, the recently concluded climate talks in Baku have left little promise, as the last round did not offer any substantial direction on the technical aspects of the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance, particularly on critical concerns raised by the Global […]