Tag: The News
Déjà vu By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
BEEN there! Done that! Or are we breaking new ground in India-Pakistan relations? Pessimism is never constructive. But with India-Pakistan relations, especially the...
Winners and losers – Hussain H Zaidi
It may be an oxymoron but the defeat of Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh at the hands of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has...
Saving Pakistan Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
WHEN I returned from the UN in 2010 Pakistan was being misgoverned by the PPP. This culminated in the national humiliation of the...
Compromise or catastrophe? – Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
n memory of Zainul Abedin, whom I got to know without ever having met. I knew him for his humane global patriotism – the...
Religious harmony in Pakistan: Tahir Ashrafi
Our dear homeland Pakistan is the most important country in the Islamic world and the first nuclear power in the Muslim world.
For the last...
Stranger in the house – Hussain H Zaidi
Donald Trump’s emergence as the villain of the piece not only for the majority of his compatriots but for other capitalist democracies as well...
Any police reforms? By Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir
In January 2018, 27-year-old Naqeebullah Mehsud was murdered by the police in an ‘encounter’ in Karachi. The following year, on January 19, 2019, the...
Secret Indian, global networks behind Machh killings: Tahir Ashrafi
Clerics and religious scholars of different schools of thought while denouncing assassination of 11 Pakistanis in Mach (Balochistan) stated that Indian secret agencies were...
The foreign policy challenge – Part II – Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Let us briefly look at Pakistan’s main external relationships. Pakistan is fortunate to have a strong relationship with China. It is the world’s greatest...
Year-end yearnings – Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
FEW people in the world have been so consistently betrayed by their leaders, governments, political parties and security institutions as the people of Pakistan....