Lt Gen Omar Mahmood Hayat Retd

  “Guarding the border for one day in the cause of Allah is better than the world and all that is in it.”(Sahih Muslim) There…

  I have spent time in flood-hit villages in Sindh and cramped one-room homes in peri-urban Punjab, watching women describe BISP payment days in precise…

FOR as long as many of us can remember, we were raised on a comforting national belief: that Pakistan is an agricultural country, blessed with…

  FOR as long as human beings have waged war, they have also tried to restrain it. Across civilizations, religions and philosophies, thinkers have attempted…

  There are times in history when a voice from the past rises above the noise of the present, not as an echo, but as…

PAKISTAN today stands at a crossroads—not of ideology or slogans, but of institutional maturity. We are being tested not on our aspirations, but on our…

IN the Middle East the air itself carries the weight of grief, fear and a quiet, exhausted anger. Across the region, families wake each morning…

Pakistan today confronts a reality it did not choose but can no longer ignore. The world must recognize a simple truth: Pakistan did not seek…

PAKISTAN is entering one of the most complex phases of its modern history, as regional alignments harden and internal vulnerabilities deepen. India’s expanding military partnership…

  THE proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza presents itself as a mechanism for stabilization and reconstruction, yet when examined through humanitarian, legal and geopolitical…