Islamabad, May 24 -- AN argument doing the rounds suggests that a 'right-wing wave' has swept Pakistan's recent general elections....

Islamabad, May 24 -- Paris is eager for purchases of defense equipment from the GCC countries. Its economy is dangerously close to stall speed, and the Francois Hollande team does not have either the will or the political support needed to implement the reforms needed for France to avoid joining Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal in the ICU. The hard-nosed GCC...

Islamabad, May 24 -- ONE of the challenges the new government will face immediately is to make a decision on whether or not to approach the IMF for financial relief....

Islamabad, May 24 -- Most of us take an entirely positive view of Interpol, the cross-border crime-busting organisation, even though we have only the haziest view of what it actually does. This is at least partly thanks to the influence of Biggles, hero of schoolboy fiction, who used to go on perilous missions for Interpol to track down international felons. Agatha...

Islamabad, May 24 -- During the election campaign, the militants of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated groups who had accelerated their terror-activities to sabotage the elections 2013 in Pakistan failed in their nefarious designs as they did not want to see democracy to be flourished in the country. TTP which had accepted responsibly for...

Islamabad, May 24 -- GOOD development experts have failed to get across a basic truth to Pakistan's politicians and economic planners: if you are on a dirt road, fill the ruts - don't dream of bullet trains and flyovers....

Islamabad, May 24 -- How our politicians love to say they hate English, yet if you see where their children go, it is to the best English schools. A few days ago I was having a chat with my accountant, a man who has worked for me for nigh over twenty-five years. "How's the family?"...

Islamabad, May 24 -- BEFORE the advent of Islam the position of women was not enviable, neither in Arabia nor in other parts of the world. In many of the older cultures women were looked down upon and treated as inferior beings....

Islamabad, May 23 -- AS the dust of electoral controversy settles down the focus of the national debate should now be not only on what needs to be done first but also on the best possible way to move forward, for the central issue in Pakistan is still the mode of governance....

Islamabad, May 23 -- Contemporary affairs represent Pakistani nation as divided people, leaderless who have been exploited by the neo-colonial feudal lords causing catastrophic consequences without accountability and engaged in looting the people of their socio-economic, moral and political consciousness for a sustainable future. The nation was incapacitated to think...