Mustafa Malik

As the parliament and the GHQ celebrate the passage of the 21st Amendment, they face pressing questions as to whether they will demonstrate a similar resolve in enforcing the...

On December 31, 2014, leading members of the media, civil society, political parties and former military and law enforcement officials gathered at the Center for Research and...

The attack on the school in Peshawar in December shocked the world. In Pakistan, the upshot is a growing military shadow once more looming over a fragile democracy.              ...

Peshawar epitomises the socio-political decline and degeneration of governance structures because of Pakistan’s involvement in two wars next door since December 1979. This turned...

Over 8,000 seminaries have neither been registered with the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-e-Madaris Pakistan (ITMP), an umbrella of five schools of thought, nor with the ministry of...

Visiting Dhaka in the middle of December can be emotionally quite a heavy and heart-wrenching experience for a Pakistani; the air resonates with the beats of Bangladesh’s...

Wednesday (December 31, 2014): Speakers at a roundtable discussion at the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) unanimously demanded swift short and medium –to-long...

The National Plan of Action (NPA) to combat terrorism, has seen unprecedented political and military reconciliation, despite significant reservations by several key players. The...

Has the December 16 Peshawar carnage finally induced a triangular fight against Al-Qaeda-linked or inspired groups? A string of meetings between the Pakistani, Afghan and...

A commando led me through the Pakistan school auditorium Saturday where terrorists had interrupted students’ lessons with an indiscriminate barrage of bullets four days earlier....