Lt-Gen Chaudhry says attack in Balochistan had nothing to do with ‘Baloch identity, rather it was just India’s provocation’ We are going to tell the world … that India is the epicentre of...

Military top brass vows to pursue all ‘proxies, facilitators’ of terrorism with ‘unrelenting resolve’

Hostile elements, ‘trained’ and ‘financed’ to ‘incite chaos and fear,’ will be decimated with the full force of national will and institutional strength:...

‘BLA-TTP are Indian proxies,’ Asif says govt to prove India’s involvement in Khuzdar bus attack

Says Pakistan will strike with full force with no leniency, stressing attacking non-combatants unacceptable FO says a member of Indian HC staff declared...

Pak Army’s remarkable success against India changed world’s narrative about Pakistan: PM

MUZAFFARABAD: A grand ceremony was held at a local hotel in Muzaffarabad, today, to distribute relief cheques to the families of those martyred in...

CPEC expansion

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said that any upgrading of relations with Afghanistan would require ‘due diligence’ and consultation with all stakeholders before it could take...

Promotion to field marshal

One of the main purposes of the promotion of Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir to the rank of field marshal seems to have been a declaration of...

Westphalian norms are backfiring in today’s world

I teach History of International Relations since 1648 to undergraduate students at the Department of Political Science and International Relations in the University of Management and Technology, L,ore. The...

Demystifying the Economic Impact of an Indo-Pak War

The recent Pahalgam attack has once again escalated tensions between Pakistan and India, fueling fears of military confrontation. While political rhetoric dominates the headlines, the severe economic costs of such a...

A recalibration of realism: Trump’s transactional turn in the Middle East

For decades, US foreign policy in the Middle East has been a patchwork of ideals, entanglements, and occasionally outright illusions. US presidents alternated between moral grandstanding and military adventurism,...

Gaza, Kashmir and Trump

AT PENPOINT Somehow, the Pakistan-India conflict, as well as the Israel-Palestinian problem, have `` subsumed into US President Donald Trump’s shenanigans, as if showing that two of the world’s most...

White Lies

WhiteLies: Run an ulti ginti

Run an ulti ginti on your front pages, the federal government’s information apparatus has requested the newspapers, on the deadline given to “illegal”...

White Lies: Dollar’s set to come down

The dollar’s going to come down to 260 rupees, says a proud commerce and industries minister. The irony: the minister, who happens to head the...

White Lies: The Lordships on their turf

A petitioner wants five Justices to be sacked, one of them, the new CJP. Amongst the litany of complaints are the allegations of unaccountable...