Pakistan Pal

What’s the greatest threat to our very fragile economy? Dangers abound, of course, but what I currently find most ominous is the spread of a destructive idea

The United States’ political system was designed by the best minds of the 18th century. But today, we wrestle with the profoundly more complex, numerous and interrelated issues and crises of the 21st century.

In Afghanistan, we and our allies have dealt the cards and made our bets lying as if in suspended animation while events on the ground unfold.

Monday June 7 was a deadly day in Afghanistan---five US soldiers killed in the south and two in the east with a US civilian contractor and two NATO personnel killed in Kandahar. Earlier the Taleban had attacked the Jirga tent...

The Friday May 29 attack in Lahore bears a striking similarity to some previous attacks—the attack on the Manawan Police Station in Lahore, the attack on the Sri Lanka Cricket team in Lahore

Media is actually encouraging the military to act before it is ‘too late’. A former ISPR man who has been retired at least two decades has written an article actually asking the Army Chief to pack off the government and the President

That North Waziristan has to be tackled is not in doubt. It has become a haven for aliens, criminals and terrorists and a magnet for those aspiring to carry out acts of terrorism anywhere.

If for Pakistani Muslims Islam is a way of life then they have no right to protest against the Facebook! As a Pakistani, I am proud of all the great people who live and work in Pakistan.

There is a huge hullabaloo over a drawing contest held by Facebook, a popular social networking site, which has not only set the net on fire but now full-fledged protests have erupted all over the Muslim World.

The decision by the Indian and Pakistani Prime Minister’s at Bhutan to resume the interrupted dialogue has been welcomed across the board in Pakistan.