From the high vantage of my ‘Aerie’—the Eagle’s Nest, perched atop the F-10 Markaz plaza—Islamabad looked like a world preparing to submerge. A heavy, dusk-filled night was descending…
At 6:45 yesterday morning, sixteen newborns lay inside the nursery of PIMS Hospital in Islamabad. They could not walk, cry for help or escape.…
By Anwar Ullah Pakistan’s debate over the creation of new provinces has entered a more consequential phase. What was once largely an electoral slogan…
The horrific fire that engulfed the nursery ward of the Mother and Child Health center at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, claiming the…
“Bacha! I have returned from the future.” I looked up from my writing table. BāBā-Tāl [the Bell-man] was standing before me. For three days…
In the relentless march of the twenty-first century, modern academia often risks losing its spiritual compass, reducing institutions of higher learning to sterile factories…
By Shahzad Ali Over a disputed boundary, a drone scans for a person carrying something that could be a weapon. No soldier decides whether…
The official inauguration of Google’s first permanent office in Islamabad marks a defining watershed moment in the nation’s technological evolution. In a country where…
By Sergey Soldatov, Head of Security Operations Center at Kaspersky. Today, a business functions as a complex ecosystem where each participant influences the overall…
Why a strong, singular executive—constrained by consultation, higher law and institutional checks—may offer a closer structural affinity to the early Islamic model than parliamentary…
A flood is often described as an act of nature. The water rises, roads disappear, houses collapse and governments rush to distribute relief. Then…
By: Izmi Herlani Modern air warfare is not won by aircraft alone. It is won by the quality of the people who command them,…
By: Izmi Herlani There are moments in aviation history when rank becomes irrelevant, age loses meaning and one decision outweighs an entire lifetime. For…
Let us summon before the mind’s eye that Karachi evening of 16 August 1961, when an aged scholar, having traversed the final confines of…
■If everyone claims to be fighting for Yemen, why does Yemen itself keep losing?■ There is something deeply unsettling about a country being attacked…
A historic transition There are moments in the history of nations when a problem that appears ordinary is actually a warning of profound change.…
In Karachi, a mother’s lap has been left empty, a father has lost his support, and the happiness of a family has turned into…