Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is an academic and a diplomat. She served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, High Commissioner to the UK and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Opinion
Needed: National Consensus On These 4 Core Issues
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. Pakistan today faces an unprecedented crisis. Never before has it faced such serious challenges – with the country so deeply divided and in...
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Police Flouted Supreme Court’s...
A judgement of the Supreme Court authored by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah last year had asked the authorities not...
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‘Ex-TTP Commander Part Of...
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) commander Iqbal Khan is part of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) mob resisting party chief Imran Khan's...
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Extremist Groups Back In...
LAHORE After blasphemy-convict Junaid Hafeez’s appeal against his death sentence was finally fixed before the Lahore High Court (LHC) earlier...
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Two Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Policemen...
Two policemen were killed and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern...
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People In Waziristan Take...
People in North Waziristan took to the streets to protest attacks on two girls' schools in the tribal district's...
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Interpreter Of Arrested Chinese...
The interpreter of the arrested Chinese man accused of blasphemy in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has backtracked from his...
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Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
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How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...
Commentary
PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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