Dr Qaisar Rashid

It was anticipated that a development on the Af-Pak strategy (announced by former US President Barack Obama in March 2009) would take place and it has taken place. On August 21, US Presid

…and also, it would appear, in our (not so) Supreme Court.  “Sometimes, it seems that the SC understands this limitation:… former Chief Justice of the SC Iftikhar Chaudhry bul

These are dangerous waters The first part of the Panama case judgement opened with a quote from the Godfather:“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”In other words, all w

Despite passing the 18th Constitutional Amendment and feeling itself secure of any threat to the parliamentary democracy, Pakistan has just escaped another accident of its democratic history

The July 28 judgement of the Supreme Court (SC) disqualifying the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan still offers a challenge of reconciliation to all rational minds. The judgement, which is a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/09/the-judicial-blunder-ii/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oh, the tangled webs we weave The judgement, which was supposed to be historic and which is now a public document, is being ridiculed both locally and internationally as a judgement issued

Are we out of the woods yet?In Pakistan, civil-military relations are a reflection of the power struggle impregnating the body politic of Pakistan. Harmony in these relations might have benefitted

Croaked the raven: “do more”.  To fathom the policy contours of Pak-US relations, especially when the conditions of relations are flowing from the US to Pakistan, the Kerry L

Revising our stance is a necessity  Every year unfolds its own intricacies. The year 2017 seems to have ensnared Pakistan into six main foreign policy challenges. Fi

For the past ten years, comedy shows on television have secured their own cachets. These shows predicate mostly on politics, politicians and political events, though recently social personalities and social problems have<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/07/hasbe-haal-khabarnak-and-khabardar/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Where does it go from here?  The points where India finds itself in trouble are its usurpation of Kashmir and its callous treatment of Kashmiris, notwithstandin

“…there are signs indicating that British are fast losing the sense of differentiating between Muslims of one nationality and the other; they cluster all into one.”  On