Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

  PAKISTAN and Afghanistan are at war. Neither government wants to use the word. The international community prefers not to hear it. But words cannot…

  PAKISTAN has become remarkably good at surviving political crises and remarkably bad at ending them. Governments change, leaders are removed, arrested or returned to…

  Pakistan may be preparing to redraw its political map, but a new map will not automatically produce better government. The debate over new provinces,…

  A national honour is not supposed to be a gift basket. It is not a retirement present, a political courtesy, a reward for friendship,…

  A state does not collapse when a militant seizes a police station. It begins to collapse when ordinary citizens stop believing the state can…

  AT 6:45 Wednesday morning, a fire reportedly began after an air-conditioning compressor exploded in the nursery of PIMS Hospital in Islamabad. Sixteen newborns were…

  KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa has rivers powerful enough to light Pakistan. Its waters feed Tarbela, Ghazi-Barotha and a chain of hydropower projects that together supply roughly…

  EVERY nation has two birthdays. The first marks its independence. The second begins when it fulfills the ideals upon which that independence was won.…

  DIGITAL economy has found a market for almost everything, including the most intimate corners of human life. Marriage, once regarded as a deeply personal…

THERE is an ancient principle of just taxation, articulated across every serious tradition of political philosophy from Ibn Khaldun to Adam Smith, that a state…