Saturday, May 18, 2013
Asif Ezdi
In a wide-ranging speech on India’s nuclear weapons’ programme and the country’s nuclear doctrine, Shyam Saran, chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board, declared in New Delhi on April 24 that India’s plans to put in ...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Asif Ezdi
The PML-N has won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly and will form the next government at the centre. It has left its two main rivals, the PPP and the PTI, far behind. The party should have no difficulty in getting ...

Monday, May 06, 2013
Asif Ezdi
On April 26, Kazakhstan hosted the third Ministerial Conference of neighbours and ‘near-neighbours’ of Afghanistan (somewhat awkwardly designated as the ‘Heart of Asia’ countries) within the framework of the so-called Istanbul ...

Monday, April 29, 2013
Asif Ezdi
With the polling date less than two weeks away, the election campaign has now reached its peak. The selective targeting of the ANP by the TTP and the continuing violence in Balochistan, inspired seemingly by some Baloch leaders who ...

Monday, April 22, 2013
Asif Ezdi
The polling day is still three weeks away but with the publication last Friday of the final list of candidates cleared by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), it is already clear who won and who lost. The winner is the same ...

Monday, April 15, 2013
Asif Ezdi
Since his return to Pakistan on a mission to ‘save’ the country, Musharraf has been uncharacteristically subdued. For good reason. The public response to his homecoming has been one of indifference. There were no cheering crowds to ...

Sunday, April 07, 2013
Asif Ezdi
A little over a week ago, a day before the commencement of scrutiny of nomination papers for next month’s general elections, a senior official of the Election Commission of Pakistan gave assurance that the process would be conducted ...

Monday, April 01, 2013
Asif Ezdi
The writer is a former member of the Pakistan Foreign Service. Gangsters are members of an organised group formed to rob others of what is theirs. We saw something like that happening in the Sindh Provincial Assembly on its last ...

Monday, March 25, 2013
Asif Ezdi
When Afzal Guru was hanged secretly last month in Tihar Jail, Indian officials claimed that it was a simple case of the law taking its course and that politics had nothing to do with it. That is of course not true. The execution was ...

Monday, March 18, 2013
Asif Ezdi
The writer is a former member of the Pakistan Foreign Service. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Pakistan section of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline last Monday was an event of high symbolic importance. It was designed to seal ...