Aijaz Ahmad

  IN Pakistan, seeing police and law enforcement with heavy weapons on roads, checkpoints, markets, or outside offices has become routine. It feels more like…

  PAKISTAN is still running on a 1970 administrative map with four provinces, but the country was six crores then and is touching twenty-five crores…

  I wrote in Pakistan Observer on 28.8.2025 that Pakistan needs new provinces and I still say the same. The reason is simple. In Punjab…

  THERE are speeches that we forget the moment they end. And then there is a moment when a man in power suddenly becomes voice…

  FOR more than two decades, Pakistan has remained on the frontlines of the fight against terrorism. Thousands of civilians, soldiers, police officers and security…

FEDERAL Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has expressed his sincere concern for the youth of Pakistan and this is a very welcome and timely thought. It…

This has been a week of two very different headlines, but one very same uniform. On one side of the country, the monsoon turned merciless.…

  FIELD Marshal Asim Munir’s recent addresses at the National Defence University and the Corps Commanders Conference matter because they do something speeches rarely manage…

  TRAVEL from Lahore to Peshawar and you feel the state change its attitude. In Punjab, despite flaws, the state tries to deliver. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,…

  THERE are lines you never cross, even in politics. In Kasur, Fazal ur Rehman crossed one. He said our soldiers die because they get…