A big transition
IT is hard to imagine how someone changes the course of their life — more so when that person is a top jihadist leader on the world’s most-wanted terrorist lists…
Spy warnings
Spies are not encouraged to write their memoirs. But after a career keeping secrets, many feel the urge to spend their twilight years recounting their heroics. Such accounts should be…
Is Pakistan getting ‘Trumped’?
With one stroke of the pen Donald Trump last week slammed the doors on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries throwing the United States and the world into unprecedented chaos.…
Action at last
ALTHOUGH General Raheel Sharif stood behind the president and prime minister on the stage at the Pakistan Day march-past, nobody had any doubt about who was really in charge. Since…
The lesson of Peshawar
It’s humanly impossible not to be revolted by the killing of 134 innocent children in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). This barbaric attack galvanised unprecedented solidarity demonstrations by citizens…
It doesn’t happen till it happens
For all their caring and offers of help to alleviate Nepal’s trauma from the recent earthquake, there were countries in the melee of do-gooders that are primed to inflict far…
A state of inaction
Yet another massacre, yet another day of mourning. An endless macabre dance of death unfolds. The 45 Ismailis killed execution-style last week seem another statistic in the spiralling list of…
What’s our Hindustan problem?
Our heroes are the Muslim conquerors of Hind, from Mahmud Ghaznavi onwards. We name our missiles after them — Ghauri, Abdali — and of course after Iqbal’s mythical Shaheen. We…
Not much action
Three months ago today, the most horrifying terrorist attack unfolded at the Army Public School in Peshawar. The scale of the devastation and the brutality of the attackers shocked and…
Death squad as justice
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” Einstein had argued. The latest multi-party conference that came up with the 20-point action plan…
