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Rashed Rahman

State vs. citizens
Opinion

State vs. citizens

The twists and turns preceding and accompanying the holding of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement’s (PTM’s) Jirga in...
Updated 15 Oct, 2024 07:11am
Battlefield Islamabad
Opinion

Battlefield Islamabad

What was proclaimed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders as a peaceful march on Islamabad to demand, among...
Updated 08 Oct, 2024 08:37am
Unending conflict
Opinion

Unending conflict

Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah along with 20 of his commanders in a strike in...
Updated 01 Oct, 2024 07:24am
Ill-conceived gambit
Opinion

Ill-conceived gambit

The government has shot itself in the foot by launching an ill-conceived and hurried attempt to bring in a spate of...
Published 17 Sep, 2024 06:33am
The plight of the minorities
Opinion

The plight of the minorities

August 11, 2024 was ‘celebrated’ as Minorities Day, as has been the custom now since 2009. The date, August 11, was...
Updated 13 Aug, 2024 07:38am
Bangladesh coup
Opinion

Bangladesh coup

The more than one month long agitation in Bangladesh against the quota policy has finally ended in a military coup....
Published 06 Aug, 2024 06:40am
Here we go again
Opinion

Here we go again

Here we go again with another military operation against the religious extremist terrorists that afflict this...
Published 25 Jun, 2024 06:42am
The tide is turning
Opinion

The tide is turning

The Indian elections are an indicator of the fact that Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) hubris...
Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
Predictable decline of ANC
Opinion

Predictable decline of ANC

The results of South Africa’s general elections have delivered a stunning blow to the ruling African National...
Published 04 Jun, 2024 06:28am
External-internal conundrums
Opinion

External-internal conundrums

Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has demanded in a press conference that the Afghan Taliban government arrest,...
Updated 28 May, 2024 06:01am
Impasse
Opinion

Impasse

Anniversaries can be of different kinds, some mere rituals, others more than a mere remembrance of things past. May...
Published 14 May, 2024 05:18am
Wheat, wheat everywhere…
Opinion

Wheat, wheat everywhere…

The wheat crisis has thrown up a host of troubling questions that revolve around the persistent wisdom that in our...
Published 07 May, 2024 06:05am
Rent a party
Opinion

Rent a party

Of late, the chorus of voices demanding ‘dialogue’ has grown to a virtual crescendo. This is understandable at one...
Published 30 Apr, 2024 03:43am
Iran-Israel Russian Roulette
Opinion

Iran-Israel Russian Roulette

The expected has happened. After Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, 2024 killed seven...
Published 16 Apr, 2024 03:38am
‘Frosty’ exchanges
Opinion

‘Frosty’ exchanges

Perhaps it is appropriate that these lines are being written on April Fool’s Day. What lends this credence is the...
Published 02 Apr, 2024 04:38am
Massacre in Russia
Opinion

Massacre in Russia

The toll of the horrendous terrorist attack on March 23, 2024 at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s northern suburb...
Updated 26 Mar, 2024 04:43am
A plethora of issues
Opinion

A plethora of issues

Normally one tries to focus on one critical issue that appears to be central when sitting down to pen these columns....
Published 19 Mar, 2024 04:53am
A tangled web indeed
Opinion

A tangled web indeed

As could be anticipated, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf’s (PTI’s) protests on March 10, 2024 against alleged...
Updated 12 Mar, 2024 05:09am