The Express Tribune on MSN

The taps run dry in Balochistan

Every morning in Quetta, before the sun clears the jagged peaks of the Sulaiman Mountains, a ritual of anxiety begins. It starts with the hollow, metallic clink of a dry tap. For thousands of ...
Security forces on Sunday foiled a major terrorist plot in Balochistan’s Pishin district, killing five terrorists belonging to Indian proxy Fitna al Khwarij during a targeted intelligence-based ...
For seven decades, Pakistan has repeatedly offered itself as America's strategic pawn, only to be discarded when no longer ...
Passionate adherents of the sitting government who were lauding Nepra’s boldness in taking on 470,000 ‘elites’ then promptly ...
Pakistan’s early “win” on tariffs now looks like a bargaining chip that Washington used to pressure India, not a durable strategic upgrade.
And the other, a sweetmeat called sohan halwa, the spelling more commonly used today. However, I will refer to it as halwa-i ...
The Nation (PK) on MSN

February fractures

Mid-February in Pakistan has that uneasy feel of multiple fault lines deciding to shift all at once. A suicide bombing rips through an Imambargah in Islamabad. Fresh worry spreads about Imran Khan's ...
For decades, Jamaat’s branches moved along the edges of power in South Asia—ideologically influential, but never dominant at the ballot box. With the outcome in Bangladesh, that has now changed.
Pakistan defense minister says the country considers itself in an “open war” with neighboring Afghanistan. Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif made the comments on Friday after Afghanistan launched ...