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Power And US Policy

Power and US policy

The Egyptian crisis and wider turmoil in the Middle East has intensified the debate in America and beyond about how Washington should respond to the turbulent turn of events in…

Parties And The People

Parties and the people

The Indian government is working on a bill with unanimous support to nullify a ruling by the Central Information Commission (CIC) that political parties fall within the ambit of the…

What To Do With The Report

What to do with the report

The Abbottabad Commission was constituted to investigate the violation of the country’s sovereignty – by both Osama bin Laden and the US – and to determine responsibility. The commission was…

National Security Strategy

National security strategy

National security is divided into state security and societal security. The former is based on territorial security, the latter centred on identity. Globalisation has led to vanishing frontiers and, thus,…

Restructuring Intelligence

Restructuring intelligence

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of the UK ‘monitors communications worldwide for intelligence purposes’, and works under the foreign secretary. The British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee oversees the functioning…

Cry, Lyari, Cry

Cry, Lyari, cry

For the past several years now, Lyari has existed as a living tragedy and a festering wound of Karachi – the country’s commercial and financial capital. It is a place…

Vacuum In Kashmir

Vacuum in Kashmir

It is tempting to say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s visit to Srinagar on June 25 along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi reflected the same inadequacy of his current policies…

Vacuum In Kashmir

Vacuum in Kashmir

IT is tempting to say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s visit to Srinagar on June 25 along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi reflected the same inadequacy of his current policies…

A Bad Start

A bad start

It may seem too early a verdict on the PML-N government which is only a couple of weeks old, but if the budget is anything to go by, the signs…

When Only The Strong Survive

When only the strong survive

If one looks at the newspapers, there is no visible sign of change at all. There has been violence in Karachi, Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other places. The killings continue,…