As the Haqqani network relocates
The time dial of rotating years has yet to chime the hour signalling an end to the conflict in Afghanistan, which is continuing for more than three decades now and…
The ‘Haqqani’ network
Erstwhile phone buddies Husain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz have amply proven each other to be dubious characters, and such people have a recurring habit of falling out. The truth about…
The Haqqani affair
Is Husain Haqqani a traitor – as members of the party he used to serve are now having to say? Questioning the patriotism of those who have a liberal mindset…
Viewpoint: Why fund the Haqqania seminary?
PTI leader Imran Khan is under well-deserved criticism for his KPK government's allocation of Rs 300 million for Maulana Samiul Haq's seminary, Darul Aloom Haqqania at Akhora Khattak, which is…
Viewpoint: Why fund the Haqqania seminary?
PTI leader Imran Khan is under well-deserved criticism for his KPK government's allocation of Rs 300 million for Maulana Samiul Haq's seminary, Darul Aloom Haqqania at Akhora Khattak, which is…
Talking to the Haqqanis
THE Haqqani group was represented in the Murree talks. But it is not clear if and how the group can influence the overall peace process and make commitments on behalf…
Time to wake up
What had been forecast by this writer after the post-APS military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP’s) tribal areas in 2014 has come to pass. Not being able to sustain the…
A counterterrorism future again?
Thirteen years ago, in December 2007, the Pakistani military completed Operation Rah-e-Haq, ostensibly cleansing Swat of the threat of a terrorist takeover by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). This would not…
Wages of the original sin
The incident of unprovoked and indiscriminate shelling by Afghan Taliban forces at the Chaman border on December 11, 2022, in which one security man was killed and 16 others injured,…
Terrorist hydra raises its head/s again
Since the victory of the Afghan Taliban in August 2021, and contrary to the fond hopes of our establishment that their ‘friends’ now ensconced in Kabul would help restrain the…
