شہر قائد کے علاقے پرانا گولیمار میوہ شاہ قبرستان کے قریب فائرنگ کے ایک افسوسناک واقعے میں 30 سالہ نوجوان نصیب بحق ہو گیا۔ پولیس کے مطابق مقتول کو جسم کے مختلف حصوں پر پانچ گولیاں ماری گئیں، جن میں سے سینے پر لگنے والی گولی جان لیوا ثابت ہوئی۔ پولیس حکام کا کہنا ہے کہ […]
Talking about radicalisation is in vogue — a bit late, but now prevalent amongst the policy circles in Pakistan. Beyond the scope of my article today as it is, the debate around radicalisation in Pakistan revolves around the usual suspects: madrassas, mosques or foreign funding. Yet, in today’s Pakistan, extremism doesn’t always walk out of a […]
Former US president Abraham Lincoln once wrote a letter to his son’s teacher — not as a statesman, but as a concerned parent. In the letter written in 1830 well before he became the president, Lincoln expressed what he wished his child to learn, not merely as a student of books, but as a student of […]
It is disappointing to see the Indian cricket establishment and sections of its media fandom once again injecting political hostility into the world of sports. The recent backlash against commentator Sana Mir follows the continued refusal of Indian cricketers to shake hands with their Pakistani counterparts, or even with ACC Chairman Mohsin Naqvi. Despite substantial […]
Hamas’s conditional acceptance of the Gaza peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump is a welcoming development and a hopeful step towards revival of dialogue after nearly two years of unrelenting war. The ceasefire proposal, though tentative, represents a fingers-crossed attempt to bring the warring parties back to the negotiating table and chart an […]