Asad Khan Gandapur

Asad Khan Gandapur

  • Too afraid to speak up

    Let’s assume you are living and enjoying a life beyond the proverbial security of food, shelter and clothing. You own a house in a posh area of a...

  • Rethinking the war on terror

    I don’t have anything to offer in terms of advice on how to combat terrorism. Heck, I don’t even know who to call a terrorist. Is it someone who...

  • The muddle of modernity

    It has become so much easier to talk people out of something than getting them interested in a subject for long enough to draw a thoughtful...

  • The dead weight of history

    There is a lot that one can’t talk about until half a century later. The subject of Partition, despite many years of vivid reflections and...

  • The UN and global governance

    There has been a growing frustration with the abject impotence of the UN for lacking authority and control over matters pertaining to international...

  • Quetta and beyond

    And so it happened – three veiled men laced with arms and explosives managed to skip over the walls of the police academy, taking down a lone...

  • From warfare to welfare

    In the aftermath of World War II, the global political and economic landscape turned on its head. Empires disintegrated, millions of people perished...

  • Another shot in the arm

    Persuasion has its limits. This was amply demonstrated in the final interview of the former director of United Nations Development Programme for...