Mansoor Jafar
Mansoor Jafar

Mansoor Jafar is Editor of Al Arabiya Urdu based in Islamabad. He can be reached via Twitter: @mansoorjafar

Curbing power theft through edicts: Clerics criticize Pakistani government move

The newly elected government in Pakistan has invited ire from religious quarters for a peculiar reason. The government has suggested exemption of 400 units of electric power per month to mosques where...

Pakistan Senator: Demands on Hajj, Umra absurd, politically motivated

The demand made by Iranian leadership and other countries for taking the Hajj and Umrah services away from Saudi control and handing over to any international committee is absurd and politically...

Pakistan carries on with petty politics, while mothers give birth on roads

Three incidents of childbirths on roads outside two public hospitals where the mothers were denied admission in a span of four days in the capital of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab, and its...

Pakistan court mars Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s dream of becoming de jure premier

Islamabad – In the wake of his disqualification as prime minister and member of parliament by a Supreme Court order, the biggest challenge faced by Pakistan’s deposed premier Nawaz Sharif...

Is India becoming the next U.S. outpost?

U.S. patronage of Delhi is, I believe, aimed at making the country a globally powerful ally ...

Are India and Pakistan close to a new peace initiative?

Pakistan and India are likely to have a chance to make some progress toward improving bitter bilateral relations late next month when the foreign ministers of two archrivals will meet in Islamabad....

Pakistan’s Tahirul Qadri: The rise and fall of a revolutionary man

Facing money laundering charges back in Canada, Qadri landed in Pakistan six weeks ago in dramatic style...

How the Muslim world can learn from the BRICS

The news of five countries of the world creating an international bank created quite a stir among the Western media...