Dr Farooq Adil

The real cause of inflation

  WHY is Inflation not falling despite a continuous decline in petrol prices? Petrol prices have been falling consistently, yet inflation refuses to come down.…

Al-Qahirahfiha al-Hussain

Have you visited Khan el-Khalili yet? Ambassador Manzoor-ul-Hasan asked as he slowly sipped his ahwa—the traditional Egyptian coffee. He was Pakistan’s Ambassador to Cairo and…

JD Vance’s message to India

US Vice President JD Vance recently made an intriguing remark. He said that two people occupy a special place in his life: one is Indian…

After a great success

  AN agreement has finally been reached between Iran and the United States, bringing the war to an end. This is welcome news. Yet an…

Azad Kashmir at a crossroads

THE recent crisis in Kashmir has reminded me of my university days. It must have been around 1985 or perhaps a year later. Time or…

Bazm-e-Iqbal

A few days ago, a self-righteous made the claim: “What is Iqbal, after all? He can be derived from a single verse of Ghalib.” In…

What will India do now?

WHY does India repeatedly resort to aggression against Pakistan? As Pakistan celebrates what many describe as a remarkable success in the “Battle of Truth,” this…

The Qur’an — For Now

That day, by good fortune, I found a window seat in a Karachi minibus. After a long day’s fatigue, even waiting for the bus—and then…

Why should Iran give in?

  ABBAS Araghchi was in Pakistan on Friday night—right at the moment when some of our intellectuals were advising Iran to “cool down” and for…

The issue of the second round

WHAT is the real obstacle in an Iran–United States agreement? Is the deal genuinely stalled over the nuclear program, particularly disagreements on five- or ten-year…

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