Every Pakistani political leader has known that cultivating popular religious icons is how one makes it to the top. Muhammad Ali Jinnah began this...

On a late summer day, four days before her 23rd birthday, Mahsa Jina Amini was visiting her family in Iran's capital city of Tehran,...

There has recently been a surge in targeted attacks on members of minority communities in Peshawar, particularly Sikhs. As a result, the Sikh community...

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. In the 76th year of...

Pakistan has been a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) since 23 June 2010. Unfortunately, however, even in...

Military rule – both overt and covert – has been terrible for Pakistan. Through its mega-sized foundations (Fauji, Shaheen, NLC, etc.) and insatiable greed...

Supreme Court of Pakistan declared former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest "illegal" on the grounds that he was detained from within the Islamabad High...

This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. My vision of Pakistan...

This article is part of a series titled “Is There A Way Forward For Pakistan?”. Read more about the series here. Pakistan once again finds...

This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?". Read more about the series here. Is a script that...

This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?". Read more about the series here. The status quo in...

This article is part of a series titled “Is There A Way Forward For Pakistan?”. Read more about the series here. At the start of...

The key lesson from the success stories in Asia is sobering and simple:  It is the people, stupid! We must invest in people and empower...

The only time that nationalist Baloch leadership was accorded a chance to govern Balochistan was after the 1971 debacle – and that too grudgingly–...

The reforms that a lot of people have proposed under the “Reimagining Pakistan” program are fine, but they are about fighting a fire. I...

اجمل کمال نے کہیں کہا تھا کہ پچھلے پچاس سال میں کراچی کے لکھنے والے شہر کی بگڑتی ہوئی صورتحال کے بارے کوئی مضمون...

The world knows Balochistan as the 44 per cent land mass of Pakistan, but most do not know that becoming part of Pakistan was...

The Pakistan military denies its involvement in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and genocide, but it has very little credibility to begin with. Even if...

A three-day strike is being observed by merchants across Iran starting Monday. To distract attention from the vast support that this strike has been...

The Tahaffuz-e-Buneyad-e-Islam bill recently passed by the Punjab Assembly gives unprecedented powers to the provincial government to censor or ban books by barring any...

The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has criticised Transgender Persons (Rights of Protection) Rules yet again and said that “self-perceived identity” is un-Islamic. CII Chairman...

The Islamabad administration has banned public gatherings and processions in the federal capital ahead of the rallies organised by civil society and political parties...

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. The recent debate on “re-imagining...

A Hindu woman in Karachi along with her six children, including teenage daughters, converted to Islam on the same day her husband reported them...