Category: Columns

Every year, October 27 stands out in Pakistan’s national calendar a day that revives the memory of an unfinished promise and a people denied their right to decide their own future. For Pakistan and for millions of Kashmiris across the world, this date is remembered as Kashmir Black Day the day when Indian troops entered...

As global politics enters a period of accelerated change, Pakistan once again finds itself navigating the competing pulls of the world’s two major powers. In this complex landscape, Pakistan’s strategic calibration must rest on a clear understanding of who offers genuine partnership and who views it merely as a regional instrument. Over the past decade,...

Muhammad Mamoon Khan, a native of Mianwali and currently living in Lahore, has been allocated to the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) after qualifying the Central Superior Services (CSS) examination. Coming from a semi-government schooling background, Mamoon’s achievement is a story of perseverance and hard work. Despite facing financial challenges and having no family support,...

Pakistan’s biggest cities are drowning not from rivers, but from within. As the 2025 monsoon battered the country, record rainfall in urban areas exposed the growing cost of poor planning, illegal construction, and outdated drainage systems. Between late June and mid-July 2025, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported 178 deaths and nearly 500 injuries...

Today I wasn’t feeling too well so I thought if the body can’t work, perhaps the pen still can. After all, a person has a heart too, and the heart often insists that one must keep doing something. My work mostly keeps me trapped between a laptop and a computer screen less time to stand...

Pakistan’s security forces took firm and decisive action on Sunday after Afghan forces opened unprovoked fire on multiple Pakistani border posts along the western frontier. According to official sources, the attacks were launched from across the border late Saturday night in areas including Kurram, Bajaur, and Chitral, targeting Pakistani check posts without any provocation. The...

Beneath Punjab’s fertile fields and bustling cities, a silent crisis is deepening. The groundwater sustaining the province is disappearing at an alarming rate. From 2004 to 2024, water tables in 30 districts have fallen, with 27 seeing sharp declines. Lahore’s table dropped 48 feet-from 31 to 79 feet-Pakpattan’s by 44 feet, and Multan’s by 32...

Prevention or Perpetual Treatment? Since 2010, more than 4,700 lives have been lost. An estimated seventy billion dollars gone. Mohsin LeghariSeptember 15, 2025 A superior doctor prevents sickness; a mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; an inferior doctor treats sickness. –Chinese proverb. Now swap “doctor” with “state” and “sickness” with “flood.” Where does Pakistan fit...