Opinion

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: As Pakistan continues to grapple with internal and external security challenges, strained relations between the federal government and provincial administrations, and intensifying political acrimony, it faces an…

Rahim Ullah Tajik (Part-1)Islamabad: Pakistan’s democratic crisis is deepening as executive power expands, judicial independence comes under pressure, provincial autonomy faces challenges, and security policies struggle to restore…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: A gold medal should open doors to a brighter future. For Laiba Ijaz, a physics graduate of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), it represented years of hard work and the promise of further…

Shazia MehboobISLAMABAD: The tragic death of Laiba, a gold medallist at the International Islamic University Islamabad, following an alleged financial fraud involving Rs7.2 million, has exposed serious failures in public protection,…

Mohammad Ajeeb Bradford: The last three decades have been a period of extraordinary progress and profound instability. While humanity has witnessed unprecedented advances in technology, medicine, communication and connectivity, it has…

Dr Ikramullah KhanBAJAUR: Tree plantation is often judged by a straightforward measure: how many trees were planted. While the number of saplings planted remains an important indicator of an environmental intervention, it tells only…

News Desk PESHAWAR: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) steps up its political campaign for the release of party founder Imran Khan, a difficult question is emerging in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: can the party sustain political agitation while…

Sher Ahmed DurraniQuetta: In contemporary philosophy, realism has returned with remarkable force. After decades in which suspicion, interpretation and the limits of human knowledge dominated intellectual debate, many philosophers have…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: Ed Miliband’s address to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday was significant not simply because the Foreign Secretary used unusually strong language on Palestine, but because the speech presented…

Saleem RazaBradford: There is a question becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: are today’s wars really being fought only over territory, security and political power, or are they also reshaping the architecture of the global energy…