Opinion

Mukhtar Kareem Quetta: Having fought out number of wars in 20th century and before, world may have realized that wars are not that effective in achieving the objective. The costs involved often surpass the benefits. Military conflicts…

Mukhtar Kareem Today, economic and political disparities dominate the discussions of intellectuals across the world, often assumed to be the underlying reasons for conflicts throughout the history. In Marxian term, it is not the…

Mukhtar Kareem Quetta: Contemplation is very natural to human beings. It is what differentiates humans and places them above other animals. However, the exercise of this benediction from the Almighty has never been easy throughout the…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: One of the litmus tests for any country’s claim to civility and inclusiveness is how it treats its religious minorities. Religious minorities make up about 4 percent of Pakistan’s indigenous population, comprising…

Mukhtar Kareem Quetta: No philosophy on the earth can mitigate the burden of appropriating the insatiable greed of the elites that control the destiny of our world. Their egos, be it political, economic or military,  are threatening…

Editorial: AFTER about a week of remorse triggered by the blowback over his chief of staff’s controversial statement, it appears that Imran Khan is back to complaining about the establishment to the establishment.

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: It is one year on since the dramatic exit of the USA, British and the NATO forces from Afghanistan that triggered the demise of the Ghani government and the retake of the country by Talibans. Over the last…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan, the highest legal authority in the country, after considering elaborate submissions by the learned counsels for petitioner Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi of PML-Q and PTI and the respondent…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Another month, another week, and another day but the same ‘comedy of errors’ or perhaps more appropriately the  ‘tragedy of errors’. It would also be not wrong to describe the current debilitating developments in the Punjab…

Mukhtar Karim As the political shape of the world is rapidly changing, the emergence of another cold war is being heavily discussed amongst political thinkers and writers. For reference, there is always some level of a cold war that gets…