An elite club of suicide bombers
It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect…
Female suicide bombers
BAGHDAD: A 15-year-old girl walks up to an Iraqi police checkpoint on her way to the crowded central market in Baquba, a town some 40 miles north of Baghdad. A…
And now, women suicide bombers
A new wave of attacks by militants in the Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions, including one apparently carried out by Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber, showed that the threat posed…
Making of suicide bombers
There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about…
Making of suicide bombers
There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about…
A case of suicide
According to news accounts scores of young men and boys – some no older than seven or eight years old – have been taken into custody in Swat from militant…
The state’s failure
FOR the last several weeks, life in Balochistan has been paralysed with most highways connecting the province with the rest of the country blocked by protesters, while mobile services have been suspended.…
People, economics and security
The slight improvement in Pakistan's economy is welcome — especially as it comes some months before the next budget is due. Everyone in Pakistan wishes for nothing more than an…
Case of the BLA and PKK
WITH the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Middle East’s militant landscape has been in the throes of a rapid transformation. Armed groups are under immense pressure to change tactics,…
Self-indictment
ISN’T indulging in a bit of self-indictment a healthy activity for nations and individuals? This question must be answered because most analysts writing on Pakistan’s economy tend to ignore geopolitical…
