The dangerous game continuesAs I have established in my previous articles, khatme-nabuwat and blasphemy issues in Pakistan are entirely manufactured and created specifically by certain sections within what we call the deep state...
Pakistan on the ‘Grey List’Last Friday the global money-laundering watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to put Pakistan on its terrorist financing watch list. The placement will come into effect from June this y...
Murder in KasurRecently, I was asked by a reporter to comment on the recent case of rape and murder of a young girl in Kasur. Our exchange may be of some help to those struggling to understand the regular cases of c...
Book Review Pakistan’s agenda for economic reformsThe utility of 'Pakistan's Agenda for Economic Reforms', a book recently published by the Oxford University Press, has been described as providing a 'non-technical understanding of weak economic growt...
Bombing in RakhineSir: Three bombs have exploded in areas surrounding Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Rakhine is the homeland of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, that has been subject to a genocide in recent yea...
Voting in darkness: an appeal to the Chief JusticeSir: The Election Act 2017 passed by the Parliament is akin to a surgical strike to demolish Article 19A of the Constitution of Pakistan that grants every citizen the right of access to information in...
Cross border firingSir: Cross border firing by India has claimed yet another life. The victim was only 19-years-old. His name was Inzimam Ameen. Earlier this week, firing from India also resulted in the death of an eigh...
TAPI inaugurationSir: It is quite appreciable to note that the long awaited Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) 1,814 kilometers gas pipeline has been inaugurated at a well-attended ceremony at Herat in Afg...
Funding terroristsSir: As Pakistanis are dreading the possibility of being featured among those countries found to have strategic deficiencies with respect to countering money laundering and combating financing for ter...