From shock to blame-games, politicians and media in the US and Nato states are now seeking scapegoats for the Afghan debacle where they saw the...
Part IISo the latest report of uranium being sold and smuggled out of India is not new. Why the international community has chosen to turn a blind...
Within one month two stories of illegal possession and sale of uranium being caught by Indian police have surfaced. Of course, any attempt to...
Despite its often pretentious moralistic language, a careful reading of the Trump Plan for Palestine and Israel is nothing short of creating for the...
Post-9/11, the world is witnessing increasing violations of international law, especially International Human Rights Law and International...
During the BJP election campaign, in an elections rally, Narendra Modi asked, in the context of nuclear weapons: “What do we have then? Have we...
As warfare has altered over the decades with the shifting of the ‘centre of gravity’ and the notion of the cold war evolving into Hybrid...
This year , we heard the word ‘hybrid warfare’ ad nauseum within Pakistan and also in many Western strategic and leadership circles – as if...
UN Women is all set to mark 16 days of activism against gender-based violence but unfortunately it has failed to include violence against women in...
The human rights ministry was not given much attention or focus in the past and other ministries poached on its domain with impunity. When the PM...
The inadequate response on the part of the state and government on Kashmir in the wake of the first-ever report by the Office of the UN High...
Pakistan gets placed on the Financial Action Task Force Grey List. The US threatens Pakistan on multiple counts but we remain silent. India...
That the government of Pakistan failed to make its case against provisional measures at the International Court of Justice hearing on Kulbhushan...
“April is the cruellest month” is how T S Eliot began his poem ‘The Waste Land’. For Pakistan it has been a rollercoaster of...
The Hussain Haqqani article admitting to his issuing unlimited visas to US Special Ops, CIA and all manner of black ops personnel without going...
The recent spate of terrorist attacks across the country has brought into question the National Action Plan and the need for military courts. After...
Our civil and military leaderships’ dream of an intimacy with the US has been as steadfast over decades as the US leaders’ refusal to...
Being my last column of 2016, the temptation is there to pontificate on the state of the world in general and Pakistan in particular – what...
India’s Modi and his BJP government continue their aggressive designs against Pakistan. Beginning with sporadic attacks along the Line of...
Corruption revealed weakens those who stand exposed, which is why the Panama Papers have seen leaders either defend themselves against the...
The Kashmir dispute as it has come to the fore once again has also shown the limitations of the traditional rhetoric of both Pakistan and India even...
After watching the MQM’s drama of the abusive absurd, the troubling question was: have we become a joke as a nation and state? From the US to...
When will we, as a nation and a state, stop being the world’s favourite whipping boy and rediscover our dignity and self-respect? Of course,...
Had the latest Modi statement on Pakistan not coincided with Sartaj Aziz’s attempted redemption-seeking press briefing with journalists, after...
A highly personalised and autocratic mode of governing has allowed critical issues confronting the nation to either be neglected or decision-making...
While the national agenda has been overwhelmed with the Panama leaks, and rightly so given the enormity of the revelations relating to our...
It all began well last week with a senior RAW operative, Kulbhoshan Yadev, being nabbed in Balochistan and the Indian government admitting he was...
At a time when the flames of the fire in West Asia drift ever closer to our region, one sees the government directionless and seemingly adrift on...
After years of vitriol, when the Iran nuclear agreement was operationalised there was a routine quietness about it that belied the scale of the...
The year 2015 has been a defining year in terms of global strategic developments and shifting alliances. Perhaps, more clearly than ever before, we...
