Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

  THERE is something deeply exhausting about watching a country remain permanently trapped in political conflict. Governments change, oppositions protest, leaders negotiate and then walk…

  IN Halimzai tehsil of Mohmand, Government Primary School Yaseen Kor Kamali has around 300 students and just one teacher. One person is expected to…

  THERE is a word in Urdu, beyhisi, that has no precise English equivalent. It means something between numbness and indifference, the condition of a…

  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…