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After a series of intense civil-military consultations Pakistan has launched a new military operation n southern Punjab, the most prosperous province whose capital Lahore was the scene of a deadly March 27 Easter Sunday attack that killed...

After a one-year lull, terrorists struck Lahore, killing 71 citizens in a packed recreational park, with children and women being majority of victims. The attack took place on the occasion of Easter and injured more than...

Heather Schmid, an American vocalist and Grammy member, turned what was expected to be a customary National Day event at the Pakistani embassy in Washington DC into a fascinating US-Pakistan intercultural celebration. Performed in near-perfect Urdu...

World leaders need to blend use of force with political options and invest more in preventing crises than just in containing violent extremists to stem the current and so far the most perilous wave of militant violence,...

New Delhi’s decision to initially invest US $ 150 million for the development of Chah Bahar, an Iranian port, just 70 kilometers away from Pakistani deep-sea port of Gwadar, seems a manifestation of the decades old...

The admission by a top Pakistani official that his country sheltered the Afghan Taliban’s leadership is hardly a surprise for the intelligence community, but it does signal an end to Islamabad’s approach to discriminating between “good” and...

Afghan violence in 2015 claimed the highest number of civilian casualties recorded in the war-torn country, laying bare inability of the Afghan forces to stem the Taliban-led insurgency after they were handed over the combat role...

This time it was the Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s northwestern Pushtun belt  town of Charsadda – a center of ancient Gandhara civilization – in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which along with tribal areas has been on...

Since that chilling morning last year, December 16 has become a date for self-examination for two reasons. Until last year, it was a day of somber reflection for thinking Pakistanis, as it marked the fall of...

Photo showing 2007 flooding across South Asia is by Anameofmyveryown under creativecommons license via Wikimedia Commons What is keeping South Asia mired in a morass of poverty? Corruption, conflicts, religious extremism, flawed governance, environmental degradation, water issues,...