Power games: Army chief versus ISI chief: The tussle between pro ISI forces and pro Geo forces is paralyzing Pakistan at different levels. Worst of all the religious parties are once again being used to ignite further curbs on freedom of speech in them name of

Pakistani Generals and Innocent Mullahs: Understanding the Taliban-ISI alliance: جنرل اور معصوم مُلاّ آئی ایس آئی کے سابق سربراہ اور 1999 میں چند گھنٹوں تک اپنے آپ کو پاک فوج کے سپہ سالار ماننے والے جنرل خواجہ ضیاالدین بٹ نے اپنے ایک حالیہ انٹرویو میں جہاں بہت سی

Talibanisation of the heart — by Dr. Abbas Zaidi: Dr. Abbas Zaidi has shared this intellectual piece with us for LUBP. A slightly edited  version is published in Dailytimes today, we have posted it earlier from the newspaper, Now we are replacing it with the complete, unedited and

General Ziauddin Butt: Nawaz Sharif’s “Chief of Army Staff” becomes Shahbaz Sharif’s “Chief Inspector”: This is common knowledge that Sharifs cannot live without Generals. Right from their birth into Pakistani politics (courtesy Geneal Jilani), their ascendance to the Lahore throne (courtesy General Zia) and their premiership of the land of the pure (courtesy