It is not just cross-border involvement but also the activities of banned outfits at home that raises questions about how much control the state really has within its own domain...
Then there is also the question of whether or not we are really serious about getting rid of all violent non-state actors that have become a pervasive challenge to state authority...
An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan...
Interviews with more than two dozen RSS and BJP officials and rare access to closed RSS meetings reveal a two-stage strategy — electoral victory at the national level, which has been achieved in the lower house of parliament, followed by similar success at the state level...
The lever between the two is the logic of the state itself, and it seems to be evolving...
It is not a coincidence that the state is negotiating Fata reforms and direct governance in the tribal areas at the same moment that it is making laws to address violence against women in the home...
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) prepares to give a rousing welcome to ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on their arrival in Lahore on Friday, the party supremo has pledged that he will liberate Pakistan from “those who are running a state above the state”...
Nawaz Sharif further said: “We used to hear about ‘a state within a state’ but now things have gone to the extent that there’s...
PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's stance that there was a "state above the state" in Pakistan has been proven true through the Karachi incident"...
"The Karachi incident has made it clear that Nawaz Sharif's stance — about 'state above the state' and Imran Khan being nothing more than a pawn — is correct...
Owing to the socially non-protective nature of the state apparatus in Pakistan, minority groups and poor working classes cannot exercise their fundamental civic opportunities and basic human rights...
In Hyderabad, the Jogi, a Gujrati-speaking Hindu minority artisan community survives in miserable socio-economic conditions in a small, ghetto-like slum settlement near the central city area...
HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid Rais, located in neighbouring Gulshan-i-Rais, a couple of days back...
A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison...
This is the first execution to take place in Hyderabad since 2015, when two death-row prisoners convicted for the 1998 hijacking of a PIA Fokker were executed in Karachi and Hyderabad jails...
HYDERABAD: A rally against drugs was taken out by a number of students of public and private schools and colleges along with scores of police officials on Thursday...
According to a Hyderabad police spokesperson, district police launched the anti-drug campaign from Nov 17 to 23 in collaboration with the Crime and Human Rights Cell set up at Hyderabad SSP office...
HYDERABAD: A three-day festival titled ‘Sindh Sufi melo’ was inaugurated by by Sindh Senior Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in Hyderabad Club on Sunday...
Senator Aajiz Dhamra, Auqaf Minister Ghulam Shah Jillani, PPP Hyderabad district president Saghir Qureshi and information secretary Ahsan Abro were among the prominent figures who were present...
A sector in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Dr Naushad, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Hyderabad on Wednesday, DawnNews reported...
Residents of the area called police after spotting his body, which was subsequently shifted to Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad...
HYDERABAD: Education is an inevitably significant source of development whereas art plays a role in character-building of the youth of the country...
It was organised by the Institute of Art and Design (IAD), University of Sindh (SU), Jamshoro, in collaboration with Pakistan Army 18 Division, Hyderabad, on the institute’s premises...
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench comprising Justices Mohammad Ali Mazhar and Shoukat Ali Memon on Tuesday directed the additional advocate-general (AAG) to ensure presence of the Hyderabad central jail superintendent in court at 1pm on May 13...
However, the bench asked him “to ensure that the jail chief attends the court in Hyderabad also on the next date of hearing”, observing that the matter was adjourned...
HYDERABAD: Mohammad Ibtesam and Bilal Khan made major contributions as Hyderabad completed their second win in the PCB Regional Inter-district (Hyderabad region) Under-19 Cricket Championships when they outclassed Sanghar by innings and 38 runs at the Niaz Stadium on Sunday...
Hyderabad then declared their first innings at 318-8 in 59 overs with Bilal going on to hit an undefeated 102, a knock featuring 13 fours and three sixes... ...
HYDERABAD: Two explosions caused disruption in rail traffic on the Hyderabad and Nawabshah sectors on Wednesday...
In Hyderabad, a low-intensity blast occurred at 1...