Concern over Nigeria’s Boko Haram homeless returns
Nigeria is encouraging thousands of people displaced by Boko Haram violence to return home, insisting they can do so in safety as troops wind up operations against the jihadists. Just…
Remembering Fasih Bokhari
If they still made men like that, one would certainly want to see more like the later Admiral (r) Fasih Bokhari. The former naval chief lost his battle against cancer…
US seeks to approve attack aircraft for Nigeria in Boko Haram fight
The US administration is seeking to approve a sale of as many as 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria to aid its battle against the extremist group…
Boko Haram
There was a time, even in the Muhammadu Buhari era, when Boko Haram was truly ruthless. The assumption of presidential power by the retired military officer and former dictator looked…
Military operations force Boko Haram back to urban warfare: experts
Bomb attacks in Nigerian towns and cities look likely to increase in the run-up to forthcoming elections, despite the military claiming increasing successes against Boko Haram in captured territory. At…
Malala, Boko Haram and Gaza
I went to pick up my three-year-old from her summer school for the first time. She is yet to begin kindergarten but her mother decided to put her in a…
The lexicon of corruption
The latest reports from the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) for FY2022-23 reveal a deeply alarming state of governance in Punjab and Sindh. These documents echo the rising concerns regarding…
How to counter Israeli machinations
The recognition of Somaliland, a breakaway region of the Federal Republic of Somalia, by Israel has created outrage across the Muslim world. The recognition has also lent credence to speculations…
Weather & terrorism
ONE of three militants, clad in a chadar, attacked the FC Headquarters, Peshawar, on a cold, foggy, dusty morning. It set me thinking about the relationship between weather and terrorism.…
Let the games begin
MUCH is happening in the world around us but at home, there is little to report or talk about. The messy Pakistani politics that doesn’t even believe in a day…
