Remember that getting rid of the responsibility by saying they do not belong to us is not a solution to save oneself. Would you have accepted a same reaction and logic of terrorism if people of another faith carry on ...

A statement of Mehmood Khan Achakzai has tremored both Pakistani social and electronic media and the aftershocks of this statement continue and will remain for sometime in media. Mehmood Khan, a veteran Pashtun nationalist politician, cited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a ...

“In the context of Pakistan; socialists were offering me that Lahore will be Moscow, Islamabad will be Leningrad and I have to live in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Muslim brothers were offering me to accept Lahore as Makka, Islamabad as Madina and I should accept ...

What options does Pakistan have in dealing with Afghan refugees after the Torkham clash? The government of Pakistan has extended the stay of Afghan refugees by another six months. There are criticisms of the decision from two opposite sides. One ...

Hate-speech and war-mongering are instruments of the populists, they are fiercely anti-European and therefore it is time to stop their ascent. Right wing demonstrators protest in Brussels. Credit: Reuters A new spectre is haunting Europe – that of right-wing populism. ...

A lot of sane minds are furious and raising questions over the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa government’s decision of allocating Rs. 300 million in their annual budget, for a notorious religious Madrassa, Darululoom Haqqaania, located in the Nowshehra district of Pukhtoonkhwa. Haqqania ...

The Chabahar Port is the start of the new cold war -a cold war between China and India which will perhaps last till 2050s.  Actually it is just the tip of the iceberg. This is the start of an inevitable new ...

The Subtle Distortions A typical example of oversimplification can be observed in a piece by Nadeem Farooq Paracha, otherwise an objective writer, titled ‘The misplaced image of the warring Pakhtun’ published in Dawn on June 12, 2016. It is now ...

The death of Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike on May 21 in a remote part of Balochistan has dramatically underlined the terrorist challenge that Pakistan still faces, and of which Pakistan is still living in denial ...

The on-going suffering of the people of FATA seems never ending. The injustice and discriminatory ill-treatment served upon these people by past and present governments, religious militants along with the actions of military authorities of Pakistan have led to a ...