The wrong approach
Pakistan never lacked the will to liberate India Occupied Kashmir (IOK) from New Delhi’s military clutches; but we chose a way for the purpose that could not have led the…
Dealing with the Afghans
Our shut-open-shut border policy towards Afghanistan needs a serious review. More than a review, it needs context, aim-identification and proper juxtaposition within our long-term strategic worldview. We ought to have…
Gen Raheel and the monster
Exception justifies the rule. So has COAS General Raheel Sharif by sticking to his date of retirement in a country where only a third of army chiefs doffed their uniforms…
Peace in Fata too?
Fata, which was once a part of Afghanistan, is still affected by developments in that country; whatever happens in Afghanistan has a resonance in Fata and events there have a…
Stereotyping Fata
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is one of those people who are respected by both supporters and opponents – and deservedly so. These days, when Islam is being associated with beheadings and…
Failure of the war
It is ‘APC’ season again. Karachi residents associate the acronym with armoured personnel carriers that contain and occasionally protect besieged policemen. The political APCs on the other hand contain besieged…
The Quetta tragedy
Sectarian militants have caused Quetta to be drenched in blood many times in the past. But the ghastly carnage of the Hazara Shias last week was shocking even by Pakistan’s…
The Kashmir wish
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is back in the saddle with an overwhelming mandate from the people of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The Kashmiris did not consider young Bilawal Bhutto’s unkind tirade against…
State of the State
Away from television screens and crystal balls of analysts, there is a slow-moving change under way in Pakistan that may impact civil-military relations more than the person to be appointed…
Abusing a legacy
SINCE the 1970s, there has been a visible decline in governance overall. Government machinery seems helpless while the law is flouted by various lashkars and private militias. Back in the…
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