No Way Forward on May 19, 2022The PMLN is certainly on a tight ship, facing the twin challenge of a deteriorating economy and rising political pressure. The people of the country cannot simply sympathise with the ruling coalition because they simply chose it for themselves. They quite literally cited the inefficiency of the PTI government and its failure to sustain the […]
Six Working Days on April 18, 2022There’s simply no concept of work-life balance in Pakistan. Whenever it comes to policies related to the benefit of the organisations, employees are made to work for longer hours and days a week; however, when the employees’ wellbeing is at stake, it is outrightly ignored. Newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif did something similar when […]
An Ungraceful Exit on April 11, 2022After an eventful week, Imran Khan was ousted as the prime minister through a vote of no confidence. To date, no prime minister has been able to complete a five-year term in Pakistan and this is for the first time that a prime minister has been removed in the country through a no-confidence vote. But […]
Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires on August 26, 2021Wars are easier to start but difficult to end. It took the United States two decades to bring an end to the lingering Afghan war but it was only a matter of days that Kabul fell into the hands of Taliban. The war fatigue forced the Afghan forces to bow down before the warlords as […]
US strikes on Pak-Afghan border will likely continue: experts on October 25, 2017LAHORE: At least four US drone strikes hit the Pak-Afghan border last week, killing over two dozen people, including terrorists belonging to Taliban and Haqqani Network. The suspected missile strikes by the US drones had reportedly killed 20 militants in the southeastern border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday last week, while the second […]