The daily grind of life has evolved new forms thanks to the gruelling regime introduced by the ongoing crisis caused by the novel coronavirus....
A very few people that I know have lived such an action-packed and intriguing life as Justice Syed Manzoor Hussain Gilani. Ten years ago, he...
The growing rancour between incumbent President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah over the Afghanistan presidential election results threatens the...
‘Ganga to Pulwama: India’s False Flag Operations’ by Junaid Ahmad and Ibnul Hasan Rizvi, launched just weeks before the first anniversary of...
The positive thing about living in Pakistan is that people are wired with an uncanny spirit to snub any crisis – big or small.This is done by...
Syed Irtiqa Zaidi’s life started a year before Pakistan. He was born in Nehtaur village in Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh, India, where his...
As the US is trying to wind up its longest-ever war in Afghanistan by entering into a peace agreement with the Taliban, there are voices within...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said ruled the Sultanate of Oman for nearly fifty years, making him the longest-serving leader in the Arab world at the...
AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has displayed constant rage at the sufferings in Kashmir. Since the abrogation of Article 370, many of his...
On New Year’s Day, Kashmir will complete 150 days of siege – the longest ever in any place along with the world’s longest-ever internet...
The last ten days or so have seen a lot of violence in India. From Assam to Bengaluru and from Chennai to New Delhi, peaceful protesters have been...
This is not a parody of the 'Naya Pakistan' slogan that has morphed into a razor-sharp cliché. Long before the PTI or even Pakistan was born, we...
More than four months since Article 370 was abrogated, gruffly followed by wide-scale and harsh curbs, Kashmiri feelings of a distinct identity lie...
After subsisting in a safari park zoo-like condition for nearly twelve weeks, I was filled with a little presumptuous feeling of optimism while...
As I was collecting dishes for washing up after a humble lunch of moong dal and white rice, the landline in the passageway rang loud. It was a call...
Dr MA Sherif is a committed researcher with the zeal of a detective and patience of a saint. Last month, we met in an East London café as he...
The governor’s rule that was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir last year after the fall of the coalition government headed by crafty Mehbooba Mufti’s...
The annual holy Amarnath Yatra in the 3880-meter-high glacier cave in the Himalayan is in full swing. So far, in the first 20 days of the 46-day...
Climate change is eating the Himalayan glaciers at a pace that, if left unabated, would threaten water supplies and life and livelihoods for...
The central Indian government has just announced an extension of the president’s rule in restive Jammu and Kashmir. The rule is managed by the...
Ramadan, Ramzan, and the crescent
A day before the month of April folded, the Indian Army made a startling claim of having found the footprints of the fabled snowman – Yeti –...
The third phase of the Indian parliamentary elections ended early this week. I am so wilfully removed from the process that when I learnt that the...
General Asad Durrani’s latest book, ‘Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters’, offers an interesting account of his life both as a...
The forced resignation of Fayyazul Hassan Chohan from his post as the information and culture minister for the government of Punjab has set a good...
Following the Pulwama fidayeen attack, the last two weeks have been terribly unnerving. A dangerous war hysteria generated by an endless barrage of...
The deaths of Indian security personnel in a massive explosion on a busy highway at Lethpora in the Pulwama district was the first such successful...
For the last five years, the Aligarh Muslim University has been under a continuous and vicious assault from right-wing Hindutva groups. Their main...
The recent plebiscite in the southern Philippines province of Mindanao has boosted optimism for peace and a settlement to finally end a decades-old...
Barely seven months after the fall of the BJP-supported government led by Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik announced that...
The just-concluded visit to Pakistan of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince His Excellency Mohammed bin Zayed, which came after well over a decade, has generated...
Every time I cross between India and Pakistan, I feel a strong urge to recount my experiences at the border. Although they haven’t changed for...
The recent elections in five Indian states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram – have somewhat paused the Hindutva...
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent reiteration of Pakistan’s position that war was no solution to solve the festering Kashmir problem is quite...
November has been a gruesome month, full of nothing but extraordinary mourning. Almost every day was marked with several violent deaths – of young...
There is a sudden surge in changing names of places in India. As the national elections for parliament slated for the next year draw closer, the...
The recent 71st anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India was marked with a routine general strike. The Kashmir valley wore a deserted...
As I sit down to write this column with a very heavy heart, there are bombs going off at some distance. Although I feel I might be away from...
A little less than a century after he left for his heavenly abode, the famous satirist Akbar Hussain Rizvi, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi,...
The ongoing phase-wise civic polls in Jammu and Kashmir are unique, even in the eyes of the Indian security personnel on polling duty. Ramesh Kumar...
The latest India-Pakistan spat at the UN General Assembly reflects a trend that I have grown accustomed to in my living memory. In Kashmir, I am all...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Imran Khan have finally managed to speak over the telephone. The earlier pre-scheduled call,...
Navjot Singh Sidhu, former Indian cricketer-turned-comedian-turned-politician, is on a serious business of fostering bonhomie between India and...
The recently concluded military exercises held in Russia under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was the first time that the...
Indian cricketer-turned-comedian-turned-Punjab politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s attendance at Prime Minister Imran Khan’s swearing-in ceremony...
As the PTI-led government is gearing up to take over both in Islamabad and Lahore, there is talk of imminent reforms within the Punjab police. For...
The AJK government, led by Raja Farooq Haider, recently completed two years in office. When he took over, Haider made several promises to end...
The positive tabdeeli: Much before the 2018 elections, we have noticed quite a few positive and eventful changes taking place in Pakistan with...
Ghulam Nabi Ganai, a 67-year-old retired executive engineer, is elated about Imran Khan’s victory. As I enter his home in Frisal, a village in...
The song ‘Ha Gulo’ , a Kashmiri melody that was recently released by Coke Studio, has been received very well in the Kashmir Valley. Despite an...
