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By Muhammad Abdullah Pakistan celebrates its 76th Republic Day, on March 23. It will be the 86th anniversary of the Lahore Resolution, wherein the historical resolution of a Muslim-majority nation in South Asia was adopted. This resolution eventually led to the formation of Pakistan on August 14th, 1947. Pakistan has …

Sheikh Abdul Moomin The disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been a contentious issue between India and Pakistan for decades. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have been struggling for their right to self-determination, which is enshrined in international law. Pakistan, as a stakeholder in the dispute, has always …

Nayeem Maqbool The logic behind the partition of the Indian Empire into Muslim and non-Muslim portions suggested that Jammu Kashmir ought to go to Pakistan. The Princely State with a predominantly Muslim population under a Hindu Maharaja was so situated geographically that it was more a part of Pakistan than …

The partition of British India which sowed seeds of conflict between India and Pakistan also created a continuous rift over the plentiful water of the Indus basin. Immediately following the partition of 1947, the newly formed states came at odds over how to share and manage what was essentially cohesive …

(Reuters) Authorities say they are needed to improve governance and bolster security in a severely under-policed country. But technology experts say there is little correlation to crime, and that they violate privacy and target vulnerable people.

Adil Asad Pakistan is an idea and an ideology. Pakistan is just not another State. It transcends the boundaries of time and space. Pakistan is a hope. The movement for the formation of Pakistan as a territory was essentially a movement for justice. Pakistan thus created on the edifice of …

  Noureen Akhtar* Kashmir is an international flash point with the potential to lead up to a nuclear flare-up in South Asia and after Feb 2019 incidents there is a universal consensus on this assertion. Earlier, in 1999, Kargil War was also fought over Kashmir. For Pakistan, Kashmir is an …

Muhammad Arshad Khan India, particularly after Hindutva government led by Narendra Modi came into power in the country, has intensified its sinister propaganda campaign against Pakistan, at local and international fronts. Internationally, New Delhi has been using electronic and digital media outlets including Asian News International — a major Indian …

Aakash Hassan in Srinagar and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi Suhail Ahmad Shah stood despairingly before the wreckage that for two decades had been his livelihood. Just hours before, he had been busy at the workshop when he heard an ominous crunch above him and the tin roof began to cave …

(The Wire) The only way the country's voters can have a viable opposition to vote for in 2024 is if the Congress, in true spirit, joins hands with other opposition parties and highlights Modi's dangerous drift towards tyranny.