Can the Gaza ceasefire work?
While Hamas has welcomed the UNSC resolution and called for a permanent ceasefire, Israeli PM Netanyahu has insisted that any talk of a permanent ceasefire before dismantling…
Zahid Hussain
An unsteady government is also using coercive action to silence dissent
The loss of the coalition’s two-thirds majority has limited the government’s capacity to legislate and take critical policy decisions. Equally damaging is the widening…
A resurgent IS-K has emerged as the most dangerous transnational terrorist group
The deadly attack in Moscow last week demonstrates the group’s increasingly destructive capacity to carry out high-profile acts of terrorism beyond the region it has so far been…
The phenomenon of Asif Zardari
Simultaneously a figure of hate and grudging respect for his tenaciousness, even critical observers accept that no one does power politics better than Asif Ali Zardari. How has…
New power game and polls
With one of the largest political parties having been virtually demolished, the coming elections have become a tame affair.
Criminal silence over genocide
More than two million besieged people are facing the catastrophe of famine with barely any food trickling in. But the international community has failed to stop the worst genocide…
Elections or selection in Pakistan?
The game of musical chairs is on. While one former prime minister has been consigned to ignominy, another has been pulled out of disgrace and has returned as the favourite.
Why Pakistan is failing
The writer says a small power elite has dominated Pakistan’s political scene under both civilian and military rule.
Imran Khan’s moment of truth
The maverick leader is facing the most serious test of his chequered political career.
Creeping military rule in Pakistan?
The writer says the use of the Army Act against political activists will have serious implications, and intensify anti-establishment sentiments.