Making war is easy, finding peace is hard; and, all wars are fought to find peace. There isn’t a bigger conundrum than what faces Afghans, the...
I have returned home after a two-month sojourn to Trump’s country. I last visited there in 2016. That was election year and halfway down it seemed...
In 1998, the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met to set in motion the ‘Comprehensive Dialogue’ process as a part of the bilateral...
Politically, Narendra Modi has played his cards. He has used his near two-thirds majority to remove the charade of Article 370 in the Indian...
August 5, 2019 will haunt the memory of the people of India and Pakistan forever. India has decided to upstage itself with a presidential order...
Donald Trump and Imran Khan have us all in a spin. What seemed to be an expedient meet-up without associated diplomatic frenzy or driven by an...
As Imran Khan prepares for Washington there is something he must know. President Trump, IK’s host for the visit - which will include a tete a tete...
If one was to summarise the state of governance in the country, the following will make a comprehensive list: The Budget has been passed and if...
This is a public-service column. It was inspired by a recent event on Celiac disease where the PTI’s Shafqat Mehmood presided with specialists,...
At a recent deliberation of a group of opinion-makers and thought-leaders – many with experience in governance and policy formulation – there...
Modi 2.0 is a journey which began as Modi 1.0. There are things which he has achieved and things still left to be done. The saffronisation of India...
The Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party – the political wing of whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The deed is done, or will be shortly after the IMF board has approved the staff-level agreement with the government of Pakistan for a structural...
Prima facie, it is a useless debate. The matter is settled in the constitution and forms part of the basic structure which remains unalterable per...
The opposition led by the Sharif brothers is effectively pacified given their specific challenges, personal and legal, as indeed their absence from...
Transpose Ishaq Dar in place of Asad Umar with the same set of economic challenges that Asad Umar faced eight months back when he started off as...
Pakistan is in the midst of a unique experiment. Unbeknown we have marched into an era where our political journey as a society has evolved to the...
Little over five years when the Ayub martial law struck, I was too young to know the difference. All it did was disrupt my most favourite moment of...
Had Balakot and the next day gone per the plan, Modi would have been in his starry heavens. It did not. Instead, it brought grief to the entire...
When Samuel Huntington first published his thesis of ‘The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order’ in 1996, he was laughed...
