Washington’s nuclear agenda
The Pakistan-US joint statement on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Washington last month contains a section on ‘Non-proliferation, Nuclear Security and Strategic Stability’. As noted by Michael Krepon of…
The empire of media and mind
The latest victim of the vagaries of the Wall Street is The Washington Post. Considered the voice of the US establishment, the Post has played a strategic role in influencing…
Deflecting from the church attack
The Peshawar church bombing has once again exposed the disturbing attribute of deflection within the Pakistani discourse. If we are uncomfortable discussing it, we may want to consider the discomfort…
Deadly tentacles of terrorism
The ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar, has once again exposed hollowness…
Jail assault and the republic’s dilemma
The Taliban come to attack the Dera Ismail Khan Central Jail carrying their lives in their hands. They assault it with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. And the first thing the…
The undisputed power
When one views the pictures of president George W. Bush being informed of 9/11, bewilderment and shock are evident. After all the American mainland, protected by two oceans, had never…
The importance of being goats and cows
History’, it has been said, ‘is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools’. Apart from ferreting out…
In search of a few heroes
When army generals in India and Pakistan, retired and serving, refer to a “spectrum of options” they could use against the adversary, they are crudely gloating over the nuclear stockpiles…
