As we celebrate the 44th founding day of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) today, it is important to remember and retrace the history and the principles of the PPP -- its consistent purpose of progressive, responsible and compassionate government. The PPP, which was launched at its founding convention on November...

Compounding the unspeakable personal tragedy that has befallen Pakistan, with one fifth of our country under water in the greatest floods in our history that have put almost five million people out of their homes, there are those within Pakistan and abroad who would seek to exploit this humanitarian disaster...

The emergence of Pakistan as the homeland of South Asia's Muslims, with their unique identity as a nation, was an unparalleled event in the twentieth century. The adoption of the Pakistan resolution at the All India Muslim League open session on 23rd March 1940 in Lahore gave our nation a...

Kerry Lugar Bill & FoDP

Much to the dismay of the government's detractors and contrary to the vilification campaign going on in the country against the leadership, the US Senate voted on Thursday to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to roughly 1.5 billion dollars per year...

With the world riveted to events in South Asia -- from the military and political developments in Afghanistan, to the growing success by Pakistan against the extremist insurgency within its own borders -- it would do us all well to remember that behind the headlines, there is definite progress being...

Most media coverage in the United States about Pakistan's recent political events gives the impression that the democratically elected liberal government has somehow been weakened by the outcome. According to this narrative, the conservative and Islamist opposition mobilized street protests and forced an unwilling President to restore the Chief Justice...

Winston Churchill is famously quoted as saying that Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. Those in Pakistan who would attempt to destabilize and disrupt the democratic system by rioting and burning tires in the streets of Punjab in reaction to...

The United States is riveted on its upcoming November election. But in Pakistan, all eyes are on Saturday, September 6th when the Parliamentarians of Pakistan will select a democratically elected President to succeed a decade of military dictatorship, and generations of manipulation by supporters of authoritarians who do not easily...