Pakistan is sliding very fast into the abyss of ignorance and delusion. We are fast losing intellectuals. That must be a wrong assumption, I believe. The right way to put it would be that we have ...

Every time we think Pakistan has hit rock bottom, events unfold that prove there is no such thing as the lowest point for a ...

In a new book, Dinkar Srivastava argues that Pakistan’s military-led strategies are driven by ideology at home and financial opportunism abroad, complicating global ties Pakistan Prime Minister ...

The coercion part of the story is well-known, but articulated in fragmentary ways. The party which clearly won the popular mandate in the February 2024 general election with its leader in jail was ...

This sequel to last week’s National Interest under the same headline is triggered by one line I had added as a very belated afterthought, almost as the column was going into print. Take it from me, I ...

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb said that extremist ideologies are being propagated by international actors and entities seeking to weaken the unity of the Muslim world and distract it ...

Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the head of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan (TLP),a group that has been the face of right-wing agitation for some years in Pakistan and often brought the country’s capital to a ...