Talimand Khan

There was a marked similarity between two images portraying the plight of Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. First image is of 2007 when the Islamabad police tossed and tried to fling Iqbal at Zero Point Islamabad, preventing him from reaching the airport to receive Nawaz Sharif, whose attempt to come to Pakistan in defiance of dictator […]

The participation of Milli Muslim League (MML) and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)’s candidates in the by election of NA-120 indicates our security establishment is going to add another feather to its history of shortsightedness so that the latter comes full circle in the form of Frankenstein. Both the candidates contested the by-election as independents because they […]

The history of Pakistan’s by-elections have rarely assumed as much importance as the by-election of NA-120. The seat was vacated by the former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as a consequence of the Supreme Court’s five-member bench verdict on the Panama leaks. However, his disqualification was done on the grounds of not declaring the salary […]

If the definition of political party is to provide a structure and platform to articulate, refine and present aspirations and demands of people in a systematic way in line with its predefined ideology and line of action, then of course, today Pakistan presents a bleak scenario. Most political parties are negating in the face of […]

Nawaz Sharif, though ousted from the prime minister’s house by the verdict of five-member bench of the Supreme Court, could not be outclassed politically or even morally given the grounds of the decision that disqualified him. The refusal to cave in to the pressure to scrap his proposed program of travelling to Lahore via the […]

A speciously titled article, ‘Vikings of Qilla Abdullah’ by Brig (retd) Mehboob Qadir published on July 1st in this daily depicts the stereotypical profile of the Pakhtun community. Premised on one unfortunate traffic accident, the article begins with a pejorative headline and degenerates into diatribes against the Achakzais. The June 23rd 2017 traffic accident cannot […]

  The new emerging strategic alliances among the erstwhile strange bedfellows do not bode well for world peace, particularly for South Asia. Reposed in this collusion is the capacity to turn this geographical ambit into a battlefield of great game of warm war that potentially will not be similar to the previous cold one. Russia, […]

The current volatility on the Durand Line at Torkham, one of the main border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan, shrouds the emergence of an occurrence that is complicated by regional and international power games played through proxies. The situation followed the killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Amir of Afghan Taliban, in a drone attack in the […]

The attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 20, 2016 was a gruesome reminder of the vulnerability of citizens living in a state ransacked by ideological banditry. The December 16, 2014, attack on the Army Public School (APS) had hardly receded in our memory when terrorism, yet again, devastated families by taking […]