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The government must come clean on the war [English]

November 22nd by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
The US has raised the stakes by firing missiles from its drones at a target in the southern district of Bannu in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). It is a ...

Syria shows the way to Pakistan [English]

November 8th by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
The way the Syrian government and people reacted to a recent US military raid on a village in Syria near the Iraqi border forced one to reflect on the Pakistani ...

Maidan-e-Jang may safar [Urdu]

October 18th by Talat Hussain. %
Talat Hussain recently visited Afghanistan he is not restricted himself in Kabul only even though he visited some disturbed areas as well which Embassy was not allowing him. He conclude ...

Fighting for the future [English]

October 16th by Talat Masood.
Pakistan faces grave challenges today: terrorism, economic downslide and political instability being the top three. A joint session of parliament is debating these issues and while one hopes for a ...

War against Terror & Pak Parliament [English]

October 16th by Zaheerul Hassan.
War against Terror & Pak Parliament By Zaheerul Hassan October 8, 2008 will be remember as another mile stone in the history when democratic government of Pakistan ...

Our defences against insanity [English]

October 12th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Writing this column, week after week, is verily a disconcerting exercise. One is constrained to keep chewing the cud because the overall situation remains grim and threatening. Yes, there are ...

Complacency kills [English]

October 10th by Ayesha Siddiqa. %
AS the threat from terrorism increases, Pakistan is more divided than ever in its response to the challenge. There are many who believe that it is not Islamabad’s war but ...

Terror and the economy [English]

October 9th by Ikram Sehgal.
Terror is stalking the land. Nothing can be more symbolic of this than the Marriott bombing of Sept 20. In the first flush some have compared it to 9/11, maybe ...

Aj Hamaliya ro raha hai ! [Urdu]

October 9th by Javed Chaudhry.
Javed ch in todays column talking about Bhutto's policies and it seems that he was a big fan of Bhutto. After him, he is not finding any leader who can ...

Unwilling to shake off America’s grip? [English]

October 8th by Shireen M Mazari.
The big picture for Pakistan should be more visible now in terms of what the US agenda is for this country. But that agenda has been carefully operationalized since the ...

Dilchasp Log [Urdu]

October 7th by Javed Chaudhry. 2
After a long break, javed ch is back with his column . In todays column he is talking about real friends of Pakistan and current government's blind trust on USA ...

Can we win? [English]

October 5th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Pakistan is fighting two ferocious wildfires that have taken each and every square inch of Pakistan into their fatal grips. The flame has already consumed 11,129 innocent Pakistani lives and ...

Inconstant, as always [English]

October 5th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
We know why Shakespeare's Juliet would not let her lover Romeo swear "by yonder blessed moon". She cried: "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly ...

America’s war, not ours [English]

October 2nd by Ahmed Quraishi.
A little noticed but major flaw in the Pakistan-US partnership in the war on terror is leading Pakistani policymakers and public opinion to make a serious error in judgment that ...

Everyone pursuing their own agenda [English]

September 29th by Kamal Siddiqi.
It is difficult to ignore the sufferings of the people of the North-West Frontier Province, soon to be known as the people of Pakhtoonkhwa. For most people in Pakistan, the ...

Analysis of Zardari Trip to USA [Urdu]

September 27th by Irshad Ahmad Haqqani.
Irshad Ahmad Haqqani leading in columnists for analysis of President trip to USA. He is seeing President trip in a critical way and poiting fingers on President for not highlighting ...

Americi humay nahi jantay [Urdu]

September 26th by Nazir Naji. 2
Nazir Naji's today theme based on American's understanding of Pakistani people and according to him, United States of America dont know who we are and what abilities we have that ...

Threat to the state [English]

September 26th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
MANY in Pakistan are shocked at the bomb blast outside the Marriott hotel in Islamabad which killed more than 50 people and wounded scores. It has made people nervous about ...

Whose war is it anyway? [English]

September 26th by Shafqat Mahmood.
The slide downhill is staggering. The Marriott bombing is just one manifestation of it. The beautiful valley of Swat with its white water streams and rivers cutting through pine-laden mountains; ...

Khof-o-haraas ki fazaa [Urdu]

September 26th by Abbas Athar. %
Abbas Athar is talking about fear - we pakistanis are facing these days. He is emphasizing on readers that this is our war and we have to fight with great ...

Marriott blast no 9/11 [English]

September 24th by Mosharraf Zaidi. %
The atrocious attack at the Marriott hotel should have been Pakistan’s moment to cohere diverse political and regional tensions into a singular, solid and unshakeable national commitment to destroy terrorism. ...

Dil Dukhta Hai [Urdu]

September 24th by Haroon ur Rashed. %
Haroon Rasheed relly hurts when he sees our politicians doing such acts which at the end suffers Pakistan's interests. In todays column, he is targeting many politicians like Nawaz Sharif, ...

Ye “Mairi Jung” 9/11 say pehlay kahan the? [Urdu]

September 24th by Irfan Siddiqui. %
A very good column in current scanario. Nazir Naji is talking about we are fighting still dont understand that who is wining this war, we or the people we ...

Pakistan: just so much collateral damage? [English]

September 24th by Shireen M Mazari. %
The Marriott devastation has traumatised Islamabad as never before, despite having seen violence and terrorism with regularity over the last few years – especially since last year. Perhaps it was ...

Sadar Zardari ki Takreer aur Mariott ka Almiya [Urdu]

September 23rd by Irshad Ahmad Haqqani.
Irshad Ahmad Haqani is talking about President's maiden speech in Parliament and he is looking President's speech in different dimesions. On the other side, like every Pakistani, he is upset ...