Fawad Kaiser

Another US drone strike, another round of condemnations within Pakistan. The latest attack killed the Afghan Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in Balochistan leaving editorial pages wondering if Pakistan government is doing enough to convince the United States to wean off. US’s strategy to employ weaponised unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, to […]

Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a boarding school in north-eastern Nigeria, has been found with a baby and reunited with her mother. On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram stormed and firebombed Government Girls Secondary School at Chibok, and seized 276 girls preparing for […]

Some nervous clients of Mossack Fonseca asked if their secrets were safe. The law firm told them not to fret; its data centre was safe as the house. Whoops. A few weeks ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), published the first stories based on a trove of leaked data on Mossack Fonseca’s clients. […]

As the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) looks towards the next parliamentary elections, it is increasingly likely that as a single party it will not receive sufficient votes to hold an absolute majority in parliament in its own right. Despite claims by Imran Khan about the extent of their impending victory, none is likely in the manner […]

The field of cricket coaching has grown considerably in recent times. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has struggled to keep pace with developments in the field, which suggests there are many personal and organisational failures within the PCB from engaging in a successful coaching relationship. However, the recent decision to appoint Inzamam-ul-Haq as the chief […]

A rape survivor has allegedly been sexually assaulted in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad (PIMS) where she had been taken for treatment. The unnamed 22-year-old alleged that she was raped by a male nurse; she is said to be in a critical condition, too unwell to even record her statement. Public hospitals in […]

The sub-speciality that deals with the interface of law and psychiatry is known as forensic psychiatry. Forensic psychiatric services in Pakistan are almost non-existent, and the role played by judicial and medical fraternity in managing legal and forensic issues of the population of patients with mental illnesses is minimal. However, there are enough reasons to […]

Hostility between Syria and Israel goes back to the countries’ creation in the late 1940, driven by Syria’s support for the Palestinian resistance against the new Jewish state. Syria and Israel went to war in 1948, 1967 and 1973, which ended with Israeli occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights region. Recovering the lost territory was the […]

I do not like being cynical and exasperated. I really don’t. But, over the last few weeks, chief selector, Haroon Rashid, and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), have got every major decision utterly, hopelessly wrong. First, they alienated the vast majority of fans by making a mockery of the selection for the Asia Cup. Then, […]

The US leaders assert they invaded Iraq for freedom and were going to make the Middle East safe for democracy. This sort of hypocrisy continues unabated to this day, as Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans and Afghanis are still trying to understand what is happening in war-torn nations where the global world powers have been meddling, killing, […]