KABUL: The world has made great paces toward gender equality over the last several decades, but major inequalities between men and women still exist.  And women, from all walks of life, still face hindrances. The women have been consigned to the Stone Age from centuries in Afghanistan. Last year in March, an angry mob in the center of the Afghan ...

My friend was once asked by a Baloch friend of his, “We know why we are killed, but why Pushtoons are being killed?” Can the state provide answer to this question? Franz Kafka was a brilliant author. His novel, The Trial, traces the life of a person who has been caught in a huge, opaque, tightly sealed bureaucratic machinery of ...

Some 18 months after the military launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb to flush out militants from the North Waziristan region, terror strikes continue to afflict the country. DW examines the reasons behind this. In June 2014, Pakistan’s largest international airport in the southern city of Karachi became the target of a terrorist attack carried out by various outlawed outfits. That assault is ...

Instead of blaming Afghanistan for the varsity attack, Pakistan would do better to correct its deadly course. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan may be down but it certainly is not out. Various factions of the terrorist group have launched and claimed several deadly attacks in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa province in the past months. And January was no exception. On two consecutive days, the ...

Amid growing optimism regarding the revival of stalled Afghan peace talks with the mediation of Pakistan,  former US diplomats have said it would be unlikely for the Pakistani military to close down the Taliban and Haqqani network operations and imprison Afghan militant leaders willing to pursue violence. “Pakistani military has never been willing to take the very steps most likely to ...

LAHORE: The Government College University has identified the hostel room where Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal resided between 1895 and 1900. “The cubicle, located at the then boarding house (now Allama Iqbal Hostel) of the GCU is still in same condition as it was during Allama Iqbal’s stay. No renovation or alteration has been made to it,” GCU Vice Chancellor Prof ...

NEW YORK: Leonardo DiCaprio feels optimistic that the debate over climate change has begun to wane and world leaders are finally starting to take it more seriously. “The scientific community has been screaming out loud. Ninety-nine per cent of the scientific community is in agreement that man is contributing to (climate change),” DiCaprio told The Associated Press on the red ...

MOROCCO: Performing royal duties as a 12-year-old must be tough and a video circulating online of Morocco’s young prince proves exactly that. Dressed in a suit and tie the Crown Prince of Morocco Moulay Hassan looks ready to take on his royal engagements but only till people lean forward to kiss his hand. The 12-year-old can be seen in footage ...

The fifth death anniversary of former Governor Punjab Salman Taseer will be observed tomorrow. Mumtaz Qadri had assassinated former Salman Taseer in Islamabad over blasphemy issue. On October 07, 2015, Supreme Court upheld the death sentence to key suspect Mumtaz Qadri while rejecting his appeal against the judgment of Islamabad High Court in Salman Taseer murder case. Salman Taseer was a ...

“SHE is no more,” said my daughter over the phone, giving us the tragic news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. We were at a recording at Dawn studios. The news was shattering. My worst fears that she may not survive this time had come true. By that time, she had matured into a confident leader. She was clear that Taliban-style terrorism ...