Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf prays after arriving at the Karachi International Airport from Dubai on March 24, 2013. It has been another week of high drama in Islamabad. That, of ...
With just days before the tenure of his elected government ends, President Asif Zardari has chosen to portray himself as the ultimate nationalist by choosing to defy US pressure on the pipeline deal ...
The carnage unleashed in Pakistan’s south-western city of Quetta, following a recent devastating terrorist attack that killed at least 89 people, has not only raised fresh questions over the ...
Recently, a high-profile gathering in London, to debate a route to peace in Afghanistan, was quickly followed by a cause for disappointment.While Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan ...
The dysfunctional state of Pakistan’s democracy has many obvious aspects. As the country prepares for what members of Pakistan’s ruling political structure consider a historical ...
As Pakistan burns under the increasing stress of challenges, ranging from terrorist violence to the threat of an onslaught on Islamabad by a rapidly emerging challenger to the established order, ...
Two images of Pakistan’s politics from the past week vividly illustrate the country’s consistent decline.On the one hand, President Asif Ali Zardari presided over the fifth death ...
The killings of up to seven polio workers in Pakistan in just the past week of course spells a major catastrophe for the South Asian country’s increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system. But ...
To say that corruption is endemic across Pakistan is neither new nor an understatement. But last week, a statement by President Asif Ali Zardari’s handpicked head of the main anti-corruption ...
An international gathering expected in Europe this week to celebrate Malala Yousufzai’s bravery in standing against unprecedented odds may provide Pakistan’s ruling elite a chance to grab ...
An abrupt change at the top echelons of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the past week not only says much about the quality of governance in the country, but also of the ...
The past week has seen a rare moment of intense diplomatic activity in the centre of Islamabad, as high-ranking delegations representing the world’s ‘D-8’ member states converged ...
When Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari ventured out in the past week to personally visit two localities across the populous Punjab province, his journey was immediately surrounded by ...
The re-election of US President Barack Obama for a second term to the White House has set in motion a number of challenges for Washington’s relations with Pakistan. During the next four years, ...
Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province was yet again surrounded by mounting political turmoil in the past week in a hardly surprising development. The latest turn of events comes from ...
A week after Pakistan’s ruling party, the PPP, finally felt vindicated over a landmark verdict by the country’s Supreme Court, the country is rapidly being forced to confront deep-rooted ...
A landmark verdict by Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday may have cleared a historical grey area, but has not left the country’s present-day ruling structure unscathed.The ruling in ...
The stabbing attack on Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar in the posh Old Québec Street of London by four men has brought rushing back to spotlight the haunting memories of the attack on ...
The tragic shooting of Malala Yousufzai has grabbed the headlines across Pakistan, in a powerful reminder of the continuing challenge to the country’s security posed by diehard militants.But ...
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has spent the past week attending the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, supposedly defending Muslims in the wake of a ...
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari is no stranger to political adversity. Married to the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto during the darkest days of her political career in the 1980s, ...
When Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf presents himself before the country’s Supreme Court in a contempt of court case today, Pakistan’s increasingly tarnished democracy will ...
Friday’s announcement by the Barack Obama administration of declaring the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist outfit is a decision that leaves behind many unanswered ...
When Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna arrives in Islamabad later this week, his visit will do little to excite popular opinion both in India and Pakistan. As a consequence of a gradual but ...
Pakistan’s potentially turbulent security apparatus was rocked once again last week after an unusually bold militant attack on an important base of the Pakistan Air Force. This was followed by ...
A notice served by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf last week has once again put the spotlight on the country’s highest judicial authority.The court ordered ...
A landmark verdict by Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday once again lays the ground for a fresh challenge to the future of Pakistan’s ruling coalition led by President Asif ...
When 13 Afghan policemen allegedly poisoned seven comrades and then walked across to join the Taliban in the past week, Afghanistan’s worsening chaos was all too obvious. But that event in ...
As Pakistan’s ruling elite seeks to politicise its woes, the country’s suffering continues unabated.Last Thursday, the victory of Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Yousuf ...
Pakistan’s political crisis may be deepening, but it comes with a valuable silver lining. In the past week, the Supreme Court has set a deadline for Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to ...
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