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Opinion

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فتنہ الخوارج کے بڑھتے حملے؛ خیبرپختونخوا پولیس کی بہادری بےمثال مگر استعداد و وسائل ناکافی اور حکمتِ عملی کمزور کیوں؟

دہشتگردی کے خلاف جنگ؛ خیبرپختونخوا پولیس کی بہادری و قربانیاں بےمثال مگر صوبائی حکومت کی کمزور حکمتِ عملی اور استعداد و وسائل ناکافی ہیں۔ وی ائی پی پروٹوکولز، سیاسی مداخلت اور کمزور ڈھانچے کی قیمت میدانِ جنگ میں جوانوں کے خون سے ادا کرنا پڑتی ہے۔
Analysis

Counterterrorism without heavy armour and air power is a gamble

What confronts Pakistan today is a hybridised militant ecosystem strengthened by transnational financing, external sanctuaries and the diffusion of advanced weaponry left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign powers.
Defense

Undermining national sovereignty through the 2021 SBP autonomy bill

Former Pakistani finance minister Ishaq Dar discusses the current government's objective to circumvent the Republic's authority.
Economy

فیصلہ نواز شریف کے ہاتھ میں ہے

The political game for the Republic is now, ultimately, in Nawaz Sharif's hands—Ammar Masood explains.
Commentary

جاھلیت پارٹی

Hammad Hassan considers autocratic powers at play behind the façade of democratic regimes.
Opinion

Undermining parliamentary authority

When the power to legislate is coercively taken out of the domain of the Parliament and transferred to vested interests who are dictating the...
Commentary

Saudi economic co-operation, now and then

Former Pakistani finance minister Ishaq Dar discusses Pakistan's history of dealing with the Saudis.
Economy

سادہ دل عمران؟

Veteran journalist Hammad Hassan dissects a cricketer-turned-politician: Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Opinion

اپنی فوج سے محبت

Veteran journalist Hammad Hassan discusses a current point of contention in Pakistan — its military.
Opinion

The root foundations of unprecedented inflation

Former Pakistani Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar discusses the ongoing, seemingly unending, issue of inflation which has been spurred on by the Khan administration.
Commentary

ویلڈن اسحاق ڈار

Hammad Hassan discusses Ishaq Dar's recent in-court victory over the ARY Group.
Opinion

تبدیلی کا تجزیہ

Veteran journalist Hammad Hassan reflects on the 'change' which had once been promised by Pakistan's Prime Minister Khan many years ago.
Opinion

آج کا اھم میڈیا

Hammad Hassan breaks down the controversial explosion of digital media as a source of information over the past decade.
Commentary

منظر نامے کا ملاپ

Veteran journalist Hammad Hassan reflects on the 2016 Turkish coup d'état, and how the event relates to rapidly-changing modern-day scenes globally.
Commentary

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