Tensions build in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta
Enjoying a chilled cider in a hotel pool bar, former Nigerian militant leader Ebi John has a simple message for President Muhammadu Buhari - keep paying my men or risk…
Delta CEO warning prompts questions about Boeing 777 production levels
An airline's warning of a "bubble" in the market for used jetliners shows how vulnerable Boeing Co may be because of slowing sales of its widebody 777 jets, and fueled…
From Aligarh to Charsadda
As if the state’s own criminal negligence was not enough to keep us one of the most illiterate nations on earth, a faction of the TTP has declared war on…
A colour piece
Can party colours paint wrong impressions of who dominates politics at a particular time? Those who have followed the fortunes of the PML-N over all these years would say that…
HR compliance
Pakistan has ratified seven out of the nine core UN human rights (HR) treaties. All these instruments require state parties to submit initial and subsequently periodic reports to treaty committees…
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…
Iran after the nuclear agreement
After years of vitriol, when the Iran nuclear agreement was operationalised there was a routine quietness about it that belied the scale of the transformation that had been set into…
Knowing each other
The Pakistan-US partnership is a truly complex one. The more you parse, the murkier the picture gets. With one exception: the constant tendency of both sides to continue talking past…
Supreme Court on blasphemy
The killing of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer by his security guard Mumtaz Qadri, on the allegation of blasphemy and in the name of Islam, was never merely a murder case.…
Engaging India
FTER an initially ‘mature’ response to the attack on the Pathankot air force base, the Indian government has reverted to its familiar stance and made the foreign secretary talks contingent…
