Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

  HIGH in the mountains of Tirah Valley in District Khyber of KP, where the air is thin and snow blankets the valleys like a…

PAKISTAN is often described in terms of paradox. Abundant talent coexists with chronic dysfunction and strategic importance with persistent instability. The country’s struggles in governance,…

THE quality of air a society tolerates says much about the value it places on human life. Breathing has become an act of endurance in…

PAKISTAN’S development story has long been marked by a quiet but persistent imbalance, where opportunity is shaped less by merit than by geography and where…

KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is no longer drifting, it is stalling. What was once sold as Pakistan’s most promising reform experiment now stands exhausted, insecure and…

IN Pakistan, celebrations are moments of spectacle and emotion. Weddings fill streets with music, laughter and colour, turning ordinary neighbourhoods into lively festivals of life.…

Pakistan’s poverty challenge is neither new nor invisible,what has changed is its character. Poverty in Pakistan is no longer simply episodic or income-based, it has…

  PAKISTAN approaches 2026 not as a country burdened by failure, but as a nation standing at the threshold of possibility, a moment in which…

HISTORY occasionally produces leaders whose vision, integrity and determination shape the destiny of entire nations. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, revered as Quaid-i-Azam, is one of those…

Voting in a true democracy is not a ceremony but a demand for accountability. Citizens do not merely choose leaders; they assert their right to…