Errors in counterterrorism

The most effective strategies are those that are adaptive, locally grounded and responsive to evolving realities on the ground.

Updated 03 Aug, 2025 09:08am

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US game in the region

It would be na?ve to assume that ties between global powers hinge on relatively minor issues.

Updated 03 Aug, 2025 09:19am

Our silent epidemic

Laws alone cannot address the scourge of sexual violence.

Published 03 Aug, 2025 07:29am

Being prepared

The Russian quake wasn’t our tragedy, but it is our warning.

Published 03 Aug, 2025 07:27am

Why Trump hates Harvard

Just one word tells why there cannot be a Pakistani Harvard now, or in the foreseeable future.

Updated 02 Aug, 2025 09:45am

Pandemonium in assembly

The Punjab Assembly has been experiencing extraordinary turmoil for the last three years.

Published 02 Aug, 2025 05:50am

Common playbook

India and Israel are starting to feel the effects of their wrongdoings.

Updated 02 Aug, 2025 09:16am

Justice in decay

Beyond the City Courts’ physical decay lies a deeper problem.

Published 02 Aug, 2025 05:50am

Community and governance

Underlying issues need to be addressed and we have to learn how to disagree with each other and manage this disagreement.

Published 01 Aug, 2025 08:39am

Poverty by design

The government must focus on improving development outcomes in the districts that have the lowest development indicators.

Updated 01 Aug, 2025 09:17am

Meritocracy

Merit is a value with roots in Islamic teachings.

Published 01 Aug, 2025 08:34am

Oily deal

Mythical oil reserves are just the tip of the iceberg.

Published 01 Aug, 2025 08:32am

Pakistan’s changing climate

Historically focused on riverine floods, planning must become climate-smart.

Updated 31 Jul, 2025 09:38am

A hybrid wasteland

Today, the political parties are in greater disarray than they have been in the past quarter century.

Updated 31 Jul, 2025 09:22am

G?tterd?mmerung

WWIII began in 1945. It has been an ongoing affair.

Published 31 Jul, 2025 07:32am

Trapped in the past

Pakistan’s universities are not innovating.

Published 31 Jul, 2025 07:19am

Back in the US embrace

Historically, the Islamabad-Washington engagement has been framed narrowly.

Updated 30 Jul, 2025 09:19am

Explaining Trump 2.0

Civil society is paralysed and unable to summon any meaningful response to the daily annihilation of liberties.

Updated 30 Jul, 2025 09:25am

Enabling genocide

Verbal objections mean next to nothing.

Published 30 Jul, 2025 06:05am

Where did the gas go?

The gas cuts at 9 pm are a policy failure.

Published 30 Jul, 2025 06:05am

A land far, far away

Connected with this is the question about whether or not it is possible to view the political crisis in Balochistan as one which can only be handled through force.

Published 29 Jul, 2025 09:46am

About electing a new people

Delivering a theocratic revamping of India’s constitution would need at least a pretence of popular support.

Updated 29 Jul, 2025 10:22am

Heritage as woman

Buildings must be seen in the larger context of their physical environment.

Published 29 Jul, 2025 07:18am

LSBE and youth

Life skills are a part of the curricula in many countries.

Published 29 Jul, 2025 07:15am

Return of hard power

With use of military force and economic coercion dominating geopolitics does soft power still count?

Updated 28 Jul, 2025 09:11am

A prayer and national security

We seem to know what to do. But what appears to be missing is political will.

Updated 28 Jul, 2025 09:19am

Sultans of scams

The scams are of various levels of complexity.

Published 28 Jul, 2025 06:19am

Protecting students

Why must we wait for tragedy to strike?

Published 28 Jul, 2025 06:19am

Taming militancy

Pakistan’s militancy landscape is changing rapidly, but credible initiatives are needed.

Updated 27 Jul, 2025 09:36am

Patriarchy: women’s torment

Pakistan’s "vigour" in prosecuting cases of crimes against women is another story.

Updated 27 Jul, 2025 09:47am

‘This is not us’

The othering of communities is a form of denial.

Published 27 Jul, 2025 07:03am

Don’t bank on it

Nothing has changed for the clients of the banking system.

Published 27 Jul, 2025 07:01am

Climate security axis

Three countries — China, India, and Pakistan — and one issue — water — will shape the fate of the Third Pole countries.

Updated 26 Jul, 2025 09:15am

Police in terrorists’ crosshairs

The plan to strengthen the police force against terrorism must be based on four broad pillars.

Updated 26 Jul, 2025 08:49am

Servility in courts

Servility and flattery are unbecoming of a lawyer.

Published 26 Jul, 2025 04:59am