وزیر اعلیٰ خیبر پختونخوا کے مشیر برائے اطلاعات بیرسٹر ڈاکٹر سیف نے کہا ہے کہ پاک سعودی معاہدے کے حوالے سے پی ٹی آئی اور عمران خان پر تنقید مریم نواز کی نالائق ذہن کی عکاسی ہے۔ یہ معاہدہ دو پارٹیوں کا نہیں بلکہ دو ریاستوں کے درمیان ہوا ہے۔ مشیر اطلاعات کا کہنا تھا […]
Humankind appears to move in cycles from times of war and destruction, to times of peace and prosperity. The earliest such cycle about which we have well-documented evidence dates back to over 3,000 years. The battle of Kadesh took place in 1274 BC along what is today the Lebanon-Syria border. The battle was between the […]
The answer posed in the title of this essay has come from the current occupant of the United States’ presidential residence, the White House. Donald Trump wants his country to pull back from the world in which it has been a dominant player since the end of the Second World War. Eighty years ago when […]
Money matters whether you matter or not. Its manipulative powers matter the most, particularly when it is not your sweat-stained money. The commiserations like ‘happiness hijacked by such money is short-lived’ we hear very often. Such a windfall, however, causes the loss of self-respect and freedom as collateral damage. They were on the verge of […]
Arshad Nadeem’s recent performance at the World Athletics Championships did not deliver the medal many hoped for, as he ultimately finished 10th in the men’s javelin final. Yet, this result does not diminish the dedication and national pride that he continues to inspire. Nadeem has been dealing with an injury since early July which hampered […]
The alarming surge of suicide cases in Chitral demands far more than perfunctory concern. Between 2015 and 2019, as many as 83 lives were lost, nearly half of them women. In the past five years alone, Lower Chitral has recorded 63 suicides, with female victims once again disproportionately represented. These are chilling reminders of a […]