By Declan Walsh, New York Times
Gunmen on Friday May 3 killed a Pakistani prosecutor who had been investigating the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2008 Mumbai attacks. 
By Declan Walsh, New York Times
Gunmen on Friday May 3 killed a Pakistani prosecutor who had been investigating the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
May 10 (Bloomberg) As every leading candidate has proudly noted, tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in Pakistan will mark the first civilian transfer of power in that country’s 66-year history. To ensure it’s not the last, the winner should turn to an unlikely ally: India. Read more »
This article written by (late) Syed Saleem Shahzad and published in the Asia Times on August 9, 2009 remains relevant today.
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and United States officials are scrambling to verify reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in a US Predator drone attack in the South Waziristan tribal area on Wednesday. Read more »
One day, a 10-year-old girl died. The next, a seven-year-old boy. The victims of the relentless attacks on election meetings in Pakistan are so very rarely named that you have to start counting the ages of the children to give some kind of human meaning to the deaths. Read more »
There is no denying that the erstwhile modernist Pakistani leadership tried to make Pakistan both democratic and Islamic, but no constitutional formula could find the proper balance Read more »
How can a society indoctrinated for years on a self-righteous ideology be led to take an inquisitive look at itself? An irresolvable dilemma has gripped the country and its establishment
Indoctrination leads a nation to progress or self-destruction, depending on the way it is inculcated in the minds of the people and how they follow it. Read more »
By Shamila N. Chaudhary
The life of a Pakistani politician is fraught with life-threatening situations. In recent years, several high-profile politicians have been assassinated: former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, and Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti in 2011. Read more »
(Reuters) – When Veero Kolhi made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she listed the following items: two beds, five mattresses, cooking pots and a bank account with life savings of 2,800 rupees ($28). Read more »
The following are the “Conclusions and recommendations” of the report on Afghanistan published by the United Kingdom’s parliamentary defence select committee on April 10, 2013
This book – Devils’ Game- by Robert Dreyfus is a must read for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the Political Islam in the global context. 
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Recently during an exchange on Twitter, I was struck by the ignorance of some people who write for the opinion pages in local newspapers. One gentleman insisted that Jinnah never made any reference to Quran or Sunnah in relation to the system envisaged for Pakistan. Read more »
Published in DAWN
The three political parties leading in the opinion polls have promised to dramatically increase spending on education Read more »
Published in DAWN
March 18, 2013
The large size of Pakistan’s ‘unofficial’ or ‘informal’ economy is sometimes cited as an indicator of the country’s resilience and its potential Read more »
At the request of Mr. Yousuf Nazar, we are releasing his book (published in 2011) online. Click on the link Balkanisation and Political Economy of Pakistan Kindel
Farrukh Siddiqui, Editor
The recently-published memoirs of Lt. General (Retd) Shahid Aziz is more of an apology than an honest documentation of his life and time in the Army. At best, he comes across as a self-righteous retired general. Read more »
Published in the Express Tribune
That militancy is the biggest near term threat Pakistan faces is obvious. What may not be obvious is that the roots of militancy go deeper than just Pakistan’s links with the Afghan Talibans or its support of various other militant groups. Read more »
The Stratfor ( a private US intelligence service) just released this report under the above title which is quite meaningful. Read more »
From Pravda , 29.08.2012
By Felix Imonti
Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Read more »
The following are some of the killings which reportedly have been carried out by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi during 2012. I request all political parties, civil rights groups including lawyers’ groups/ associations, and journalists to email this to the Supeme Court of Pakistan Read more »
In Jan. 2012, Mr.Yousuf Nazar, a political economist and former Citibanker published his book: “Balkanisation and Political Economy of Pakistan”. Its last chapter “Pakistan’s Way Forward” offers a comprehensive strategy for the country’s complex political, economic, domestic and foreign policy issues. Read more »
By AARON DAVID MILLER
Foreign policy, including the use of military power, isn’t an end in itself. It consists of tools and instruments designed to achieve specific and hopefully well-thought-out ends. Those ends — let’s call them interests — are theoretically supposed to drive a country’s foreign-policy strategy. Sounds pretty simple, right? Read more »
We believe that anyone who promotes the conspiracy theory that Tehreek-e-Taliban or Baitullah Mehsud (yes they are terrorists and enemies of the people) bombed Benazir Bhutto’s welcome procession in Karachi on October 18, 2007 is either naive or an accessory in the cover-up of her murder. The following piece by Amir Mir is a must read. Read more »
Today a DAWN columnist wrote about the recently published book “Confront and Conceal” by David Sanger. The column misses some key points like Obama administration is dysfunctional and its information sources have often turned out to be completely wrong. The following review published in the New York Times is a more serious and objective (not reverential) critique of the book. Read more »
Published In The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2012.
The brouhaha over the Dunya News video leak has shifted the spotlight from the real issue of accountability to the dark underbelly of the television news networks. Read more »
A record of payments allegedly made to 19 senior-journalists of Pakistan, by the Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz has surfaced on the social networking site Twitter, Aaj News reported. Read more »
We are reproducing the following email from Mr. Yousuf Nazar without comment:
Regards,
Farrukh Siddiqui Read more »
Occupy Seattle protesters, an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, scuffle with police officers during a May Day rally and anti-capitalist march in Seattle. Read more »
The following article was recently published in a special supplement (May 10, 2012) titled “Emerging World Order” of the Financial Times. It is a must read for all thinking Pakistanis.
by Peter Shadbolt
If the African continent were to have its own modem-day Statue of Liberty, then Lady Liberty would probably be brandishing a mobile phone rather than a torch. Read more »
There have been calls for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation after his conviction by the Supreme Court. While Nawaz Sharif has demanded resignation, Imran Khan has threatened a tsunami march on Islamabad. Read more »
Updated April 22, 2012: 1210 Hours PST
The crash of Bhoja Airlines is a horrible tragedy. The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 carrying about 127 people was on its first flight from Karachi to Islamabad. The Bhoja airliner crashed in stormy weather on Friday evening. There were no reports of survivors. Read more »
One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. Read more »
Is Pakistan’s middle class around 70 million (or nearly 40% of Pakistan’s population) as a recent article published in the daily DAWN suggested? After the publication of this article titled “Consumption conundrum” by Sakib Sherani (an ex-Banker), a former World Bank official Shahid Javed Burki writing in the Express Tribune Read more »
Former Army Chief Walks to the Supreme Court to appear in the Mehrangate Case
April 16 (Bloomberg) — The snarling between the U.S. and Pakistan won’t let up. The battle began, of course, when U.S. forces sneaked into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden last May. Read more »
We are pleased to publish copy of a classified internal document prepared by a special operations team of the US/NATO forces in Afghanistan.
By Unni Krishnan
April 13 (Bloomberg News) — Commercial University Ltd. in New Delhi offers degrees in commerce, one of hundreds of private colleges trying to fill an education gap as India’s growth creates a middle class eager for its children to succeed. Read more »
