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Lawyers’ movement launched in Pakistan in 2007, primarily for restoration of the chief justice, turned into a movement for “rule of law” with the passage of time. This movement had raised hopes of ordinary Pakistanis that they would get justice at their doorsteps. This hope did not materialize...

When the honorable justices of the apex court have chosen not to speak through their judgments, it will not be improper to scrutinize their conduct. And the judges have chosen to speak, that too publically, not on constitutional matters but on matters concerning national security. It will only...

Pakistan’s populist Supreme Court is seized with the issue of insurgency in Balochistan. Every word of observations that the honorable judges utter during the proceedings turns into music for anti-Pakistan media. It is the very same media which has launched campaign against Pakistan in general...

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion and the civilized societies respect opinions even when they do not subscribe to it. Drones being used to kill terrorists may be a “cost-effective” military solution in the eyes of hawks in US administration but the fact that their collateral...

Balochistan is on fire; so much so that dubbing it Pakistan’s war zone would not be an exaggeration. There are so many hostile forces up in arms against the state of Pakistan. These forces include India’s RAW, American CIA, British MI6 and the separatists encouraged, financed and...

Very right but please also consider the last line: Unfortunately, this task will have to be performed by the security establishment itself because the politicians of today are no different from the politicians of 1971.

Idea in the modern day warfare is an effective weapon. Before winning a war in the battlefield, armies must win the war of perceptions and effectively counter baseless and negative propaganda. Pakistani army lost this war in East Pakistan and now it cannot afford a defeat in Balochistan. In...

Imran Khan’s Peace March to restive FATA region of Pakistan for highlighting the woes of innocent victims of drone attacks has already taken off and is midway. The rally is massive by all measures keeping in view the numbers, the distance involved and the riskiness of destination terrain...

It is no more a secret that US-Pakistan relations are deteriorating despite hectic damage-control efforts from both the sides. Pakistan seems to have learned from history and come of age and is seeking new partnerships. Its outreach to Russia, US adversary of the Cold War era, is enough to...

Those who have pressurized President Putin into postponing his Pakistan visit have done no good to the prospects of a peaceful Afghanistan after draw-down of foreign troops. This is a disservice even to a graceful exit for the NATO forces. According to media reports, President Vladimir Putin was...

The events are unfolding so swiftly that it has become difficult to keep track of who will be whose friend after Americans pack up from Kabul and leave. One thing is for sure; foes of yesterday will be compelled by the realities of realist politics of today to switch sides and embrace each...

The American war in Afghanistan was never a winnable adventure from the very beginning but there were reasons for the sole super power to pretend in 2014 that it had achieved its objectives after 13 years of fighting in Afghanistan. Alas, the Americans are now being denied that luxury. There are...

Killing of a US Ambassador in Libya is not only a condemnable act, it is sad and gory. An ambassador is supposed to be the most protected precious asset in the host country even when the two countries are at war with each other. And Libya and the US won friendship the hard and bloody way. The...

In this Information Age, finding sensitive information is no more a daunting challenge. The social media has solved so many problems and removed many traditional barriers. The militants fighting the occupations forces in Afghanistan have discovered a novel way, a different kind of honey trap...

New theories about the real master-mind of 9/11 attacks? Conspiracy theorists on the 9/11 tragedy are working overtime to rob OBL of the credit of turning the world into a frightened planet. He had himself boasted of luring the Americans into Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. He had twin...

The major reason for collapse of economy in a civilian rule is the political expedience. The political interests of politicians are always incompatible with national economic interests. The country is run on the principle of appeasement in order to secure a constituency for the next elections...

The sympathetic media in Pakistan and the outside world played up the misplaced rhetoric of ill-informed and largely illiterate clergy while the mainstream clergy was out to defend the girl. The clerics of acknowledged credentials dubbed the girl as “daughter of the nation”. This case may prove...

While on this auspicious day of September 6, we remember our valiant soldiers who sacrificed their present for nation’s future, we should not forget to remember, and pay our tributes to, the Queen of Melody Madam Noor Jehan, poet par excellence Dr Rasheed Anwar and writer Inayatullah...

When the Blues attacked the Greens with all its military might in 2011, it had no idea that the tide could turn in an opposite direction. So far it had pinned all its hopes, and bet all its dollars, on the loyalties of Afghan forces. With the alarming shift of positions, it is not difficult to...

According to international law, it is illegal to use drones to kill non-combatant civilians. Even under the American law, it is illegal to drone a US-born terrorist. American taxpayers, whose hard-earned dollars are used and wasted, in war efforts, and particularly in drone killings, are...