The Mumbai case
Post-Mumbai, ten years back, was a period of fertile imagination. Numerous hypotheses emerged but to this region’s great fortune Pakistan accepted very early in the terror cycle that most of…
Mumbai attacks trial
The Mumbai terror attacks were claimed by India to be its 9/11. For more than 66 hours, 10 highly trained militants played havoc in India’s commercial metropolis, spraying bullets and…
Presenting the ‘India dossier’ at the UN
It must have taken quite an effort to convince Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is generally considered to be very cautious when it comes to India, to take up the…
Developments on peace
During the last week, three very significant developments occurred related to peace and security in the region, fighting terrorism collectively and promoting strong economic linkages among the countries of the…
Reclaiming Pakistan
I do not know whether we are in a state of a soft coup or not but I know one thing: the army and the government seem to be working…
A no-talks strategy going nowhere
The latest twist in Pakistan-India relations has received little attention in the country with the public focus fixed on the unfolding political drama in Islamabad. But this does not minimise…
Talks about talks, again
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s provocative remarks about Pakistan earlier this month appear to have cast a shadow over upcoming talks between India and Pakistan, they came as little surprise.…
State of uncertainty
The meeting in New York between prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh helped to ratchet down tensions that had surged in recent months between the two countries. It yielded…
Breaking the climate silos
AS the winter smog blankets our cities from Lahore to Delhi, and farmers from Punjab to Bihar watch shifting monsoon patterns upend centuries-old agricultural practices, we are reminded daily that climate change knows no…
New scholarship on religion and reform: Part – II
'The latest contribution by Ali Usman Qasmi to the existing scholarship on the history of Pakistan and how religion has influenced citizenship and other issues in the country is Qaum,…
