Senate Elections, Vote of Confidence and the PSL Postponement

A battle won for Imran, but the Opposition is preparing for a long war

The FATF decision, the ECP verdict in NA-75 and Imran’s Sri Lanka Visit

Pakistan This Week

Another protest in Islamabad

The Federal Government Employees’ demand a 40 per cent hike

Decoding the TLP's anti-France protests

Appeasement policies provide more space for the rightwing groups

Lawyers become unlawful

Explaining the Lawyers' violence in Islamabad

Pakistan's Senate problem

Why does the government want to change the voting procedure in the Parlaiment?

Is the PDM slowing down?

Will the PPP's no-confidence motion against Imran Khan succeed?

The TLP’s anger against France and the violence in Islamabad High Court

Violence in the streets and in the court house

Tensions within the Pakistan Democratic Movement

The game is not over for the Opposition however

Impending Senate Elections and the Long March

The PDM Offensive within and outside the Parliament

A former ISI chief accused, an international terror mastermind freed

The cases of Lt Gen Durrani and Omar Sheikh

Violence down, but the root causes remain

A Critique of Pakistan’s National Action Plan 

The Hazaras protest over burying the dead; PM says don’t blackmail me

The Shia Prosecution in Balochistan

Differences within the PDM

Gwadar fencing, and Lakhvi's arrest

Pakistan vs the West

An inherent anti-West sentiment or a manifestation of its Ummah ambitions?

Khadim Hussain Rizvi

Profile of a radical Barelvi

Gilgit Baltistan

Pakistan debates granting provincial status to the region. Three reasons why

Gilgit Baltistan

Chinese interests in the region is not just the CPEC

Minorities in Pakistan

Violence against the Ahmadis in Pakistan

Diamer-Bhasha

A dam of despair for Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit Baltistan

The people want to get rid of the constitutional and political limbo. Five reasons why

From Karachi to Paris

Global fallouts of the rise of Barelvi extremism in Pakistan

The return of confrontational politics

Pakistan Democratic Movement: An aggressive Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan set the stage 

Between Myth and History

Pakistan is smitten by the 'Ertugrul', a Turkish TV Series: Will it bite them in the long run?

The Gender Question

Women in Pakistan have broken the glass ceiling. But, the social walls stand strong

Pakistan This Week

Sharif-Zardari Meeting and the Resignation of Gen Asim Bajwa

The Polio Crisis in Pakistan

Africa is Polio free. But, in Asia, it exists in Pakistan. Five reasons why

The Locust Problem in Pakistan:

The first two waves were bad. The third one will be worse

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia:

Tensions within the OIC over Kashmir

China Pakistan Economic Corridor

CPEC in Balochistan: Designed to Discriminate and Colonize

Pakistan This Week

The Kashmir Frenzy and Qureshi's Statement on the OIC

Media under siege:

Who is targeting the journalists? And why?

Pakistan This Week

Judiciary's Week Out: Courts on the functioning of the NAB, abduction of a journalist, and 'those we don't speak of'

The Cynthia Ritchie Saga:

The search for a positive story on Pakistan ends in controversy

Baloch families and their unending fight for the disappeared persons

In Focus

Pakistan This Week

Kashmir, Kulbushan Jadav and Fake licenses

Pakistan Railways and Pakistan Steel Mills:

What ails Pakistan's Public Sector Enterprises

Pakistan This Week

Lal Masjid Maulana returns to occupy another seminary

AQ Khan:

Free man, but in chains everywhere

Pakistan This Week

Two issues - Minus One and Judicial Integrity, One problem

Contemporary Balochistan:

Between the BLA’s Karachi attack and the BNP’s exit from the PTI coalition

Pakistan This Week

The Split within the PTI and US State Department’s Annual Report on Terrorism

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Pakistan

The PTI government's dialogue offer

BNP-M’s exit from the coalition, and two Verdicts on Justice Isa reference and Imran Farooq murder cases

Pakistan This Week

Forced Conversions and Marriages in Pakistan

The case beyond Reena and Raveena

Budget 2020, Bajwa's Kabul Visit & Imran's COVID failure

Pakistan This Week

Jirga trouble in South Waziristan, Two years of KP-FATA merger, and the COVID spike

Pakistan This Week

Imran complains of an Indian false flag march, Pakistan responds to the US criticisms on China and CPEC, Violence along the Pak-Afghan and Pak-Iran borders, and the Locust threat

Pakistan This Week

Pakistan eases the lockdown, holds National Assembly meeting, bans three organizations, and decides to build the Diamer-Bhasha dam

Pakistan This Week

Pakistan bans three more organizations as proscribed, but the problem remains

Editorial

Smart Lockdown, SOPs vs Social Realities

Editorial

Khalilzad meets Gen Bajwa: What is Pakistan’s Afghan Endgame?

Editorial

The US-Taliban deal will lead to an Afghan Civil War

After Doha

Five reasons why Pakistan is ecstatic

The US-Taliban deal in Doha

The Azadi March will fail, for four reasons

The Fazlur Fizzle

PEMRA’s new directive: Curbing media freedom is a self goal and will return to haunt

Pakistan This Week

Call me Steve

RIP Stephen Cohen

Azadi March, Ease of Doing Business in Pakistan, LoC clashes and the Agreement on Kartarpur

Pakistan This Week

Dialogue with the Taliban: Six Questions

Af-Pak

Why the Taliban continues with Violence despite Peace Talks: Three Explanations

The Road to Doha

Farewell, Justice Nisar

Well Judged

All in the name of Peace

The Afghan Great Game in 2019

Trump's Withdrawal Plan

US and Af-Pak

Contemporary Gilgit Baltistan

Under the CPEC Shadow

Imran Khan's Maiden Hundred

A Political Century

Pakistan's "Naya" Parliament: Five New Features

Election 2018 Analysis - 04

The Fall of MQM

Election 2018 Analysis - 03

Picking up the Indo-Pak Peace

India Pakistan

The Tehreek-e-Labbaik: Rise of the Radical

Election 2018 Analysis -02

The Naya Pakistan: Five Major Trends

Election 2018 Analysis -01

Likely Winners, Runners and Losers

Elections 2018

Will Pakistan walk the Afghan Talk?

Af-Pak

Who is targeting the Hazara? And Why?

Balochistan

Deciphering the anti-Malala Sentiment in Pakistan

I'm Malala

The Sectarian Spiral: Who and Why?

Afghanistan

The Senate Elections: What does the numbers mean?

Politics

Advantage PML-N under Shahbaz Sharif

PML-Shabhbaz

Nawaz Sharif, PML-N and the Judiciary

Judicial Politics

Drones: American Arrogance and Pakistan’s Duplicity

Pakistan and US

Forgive us Zainab. We will forget you soon

Society

US-Pak Relations: What has changed? What hasn't? And what is unlikely to?

External

Will the Indo-Pak Relations improve in 2018?

India-Pakistan

Saudi Arabia and the Sharifs: Is there a deal? If so, what does that mean?

Politics

Pakistan’s Four Foreign Policy Challenges in 2018

External

Islamabad Protests: Army Called Out. Seven Questions you want to know

Politics

Hafiz Saeed’s Release:Pakistan's Weak Case between Politics, Legality and International Obligations

Hafiz Saeed

The Slow Burn in Balochistan: One Province, Five Actors, Multiple Issues

Balochistan

Karachi-minus-MQM:Will the Establishment's Plan Succeed?

Politics

The TLY paralyses Islamabad and Rawalpindi: Rise of the Right, or the use of it?

Politics

Four Recent Developments in Pakistan: Is there a “Nawaz Reconciliation” Plan?

Weekly Review

The London Plan and Shabaz as the PM: Will it work for the PML-N?

Inside PML-N

India & Kabul play new round in Great Game: Chabahar

Chabahar

The Ghost of Mumtaz Qadri: The Electoral Rise of Extreme Right

Extremism

Five Myths on the Afghan QCG: Why it hasn’t succeeded and why it won’t

Af-Pak

Why the Establishment and the PML-N prefer Shahbaz Sharif?

The Nawaz Endgame

From Quetta to Muscat: The Ghosts of the Past

Weekly Review

Joshua and Caitlan: Story of Victims, Rescuers and Perpetrators

Af-Pak

Continuing Tensions with Afghanistan & Courting a Reset with the US

Weekly Review

Looking for a "New Season": Will Ghani get it right this time?

Af-Pak

Repairing External Relations and Rupturing Internal Equations

Weekly Review

One Result, Many Questions

NA 120 Bye Elections

Deja Vu, than a Tipping Point

Pakistan and US

Trump's Afghan Surge: What it means for Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Afghanistan

Three Options for India & Pakistan

Indo-Pak 70/70

Jirga and Gender Violence

Society

The Sharif Verdict

Politics

Pashtunwali, Kashmiriyat and Sufi: Are our Social Codes under Stress?

Society

Pakistan's Parachinar Problem

Sectarian

Towards a PML minus Sharif?

Panama Politics

JIT: What Next for Nawaz Sharif?

The Panama Politics

Afghan Common Ground

Afghanistan

Doha to Astana: Insulate and Integrate

India-Pakistan

Afghans’ Kabul Problem

Afghanistan

ICJ Verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav: Four Likely Pakistan Options

Indo-Pak

Fighting Taliban and the Islamic State: Don't prioritize

Terrorism

Indo-Pak Dialogue Options: Importance of Back Channel

India-Pakistan

De-securitizing the Indus

India-Pakistan

Cross-LoC Interactions: Low Hanging Kashmir Fruit

India-Pakistan

Honouring Younis and Misbah

Cricket

Scarcity, Institutions, Securitization: Our “Other” Water Issues

Water

Fighting the Daesh: A Regional Counter IS Strategy

Terrorism

The Husain Huqqani Revelation

Civil-Military

The Raddul Fasaad Fallouts: Will it succeed where Zarb-e-Azb failed?

Counter Terrorism

Deep-rooted Misogyny: Offend her; she will forgive in the name of tradition

Gender

The Standing Passengers of PIA

PIA

Tehmina Janjua: Internal Challenges for the New Foreign Secretary

External

Shahid Afridi: Well Played Hero

Cricket

Court, Society and Valentine Day: Is expression of love against our culture?

Society

History repeats itself: Cricket, Corruption and Pakistan

Cricket

Hafiz Saeed Detention: Tactical Choice or Strategic Decision?

Terrorism

Military Courts in Pakistan: Will they return? What are the implications?

Civil-Military

Pakistan International Airlines: Turbulence in Ground

PIA

Where are the Akrams and Akhtars?: Implications of being Unpredictable

Cricket

Terror revisits Parachinar: Kurram Agency’s Ten Year Sectarian Itch

Sectarian

State vs Militant Groups: What if the Genie has a mind of its own?

Terrorism

Operationalising the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

CPEC

Sectarian Violence: No More Deja Vu

Sectarian

Pakistan’s Afghan Policy: What Shapes? Who Shapes? And through What Strategies?

Af-Pak

CPEC Pressures on PoK: Will Pakistan integrate Gilgit-Baltistan? And What if?

Gilgit Baltistan

The IPL Lessons for Pakistan Super League

Cricket

The Bajwa Forecast: Challenges for the new Pakistan Army Chief

Military

Saudi Arabia, Iran and the ISIS: Pakistan’s Middle East Conundrum

External

Honour Killing: No Honour, Only Crime and Evil

Society

Foreign Fighters of Pakistan: Why Pashtuns and Punjabis?

Terrorism

Across the Durand Line: Who is in Control?

Af-Pak

Zarb-e-Azb: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the TTP

Terrorism

And Now, They Are Coming For Our Children

Terrorism

A Tale of Two Taliban: Linkages between Afghan and Pakistan Taliban

Taliban

The Axact Scam: Demands for Fake Degrees

Education

China and CPEC: A South Asian Opportunity?

CPEC

Pakistan’s Panama Paradox: Demanding Accountability vs Fixing Sharifs

Politics

Torkham Clashes: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Durand Line

Af-Pak