Akbar Jan Marwat

Talks with TTP: Legitimising terrorism risks
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- July 21, 2024
REPORTS have started appearing mostly in Urdu newspapers indicating that our government has decided to reinitiate negotiations with the terrorist outfit TTP. According to these…

Chances of expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian War
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- June 26, 2024
THE two-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of ending soon. Rooted in Russian irredentist claims and Ukraine’s hobnobbing with NATO and the…

Resurgent IS-K: The greatest global threat
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- May 9, 2024
THE most dangerous transnational terrorist group which is threatening world peace today is the IS-K or the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State. Besides Al-Qaida,…

Poor performance by religious parties in 2024 polls
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- March 27, 2024
THE performance of religious parties in the 2024 elections witnessed a significant decline, marking one of their weakest showings in electoral history. The last instance…

Religious parties’ electoral underperformance
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- March 19, 2024
THE performance of religious parties in the 2024 elections has been one of its worst in their electoral history. The last time, the religious parties…

Pakistan’s unresolved problems with Afghanistan
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- February 7, 2024
WHILE interaction and engagement between Pakistan and Afghanistan continue at different levels, the main issue of contention between the two powers is nowhere near resolution.…

Dealing with heightened terrorist threats
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- December 22, 2023
AN eminent security and terrorism specialist, Muhammad Amir Rana, has described the present precarious security situation in Pakistan as resembling the security climate just before…

The Palestinian issue in its historic perspective
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- November 22, 2023
A bloody threshold has been crossed in Gaza. More than 12,000 Palestinians have been martyred by incessant Israeli bombing. More than four thousand of them…

Religious parties in the line of fire
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- October 7, 2023
OUR readers must have noted that, more than any other national leader, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, the Amir of JUI-F, is reluctant about having elections towards the…

Uncertainty about election & discontent of the PPP
- By Akbar Jan Marwat
- September 12, 2023
RECENTLY، the President of Pakistan invited the Chief Election Commissioner to the President House, so that he the (President) could give a date for the…