The endless race
Since the advent of the nuclear age in South Asia, the region faces the terrifying prospect of a future nuclear holocaust resulting from a full-scale war between Pakistan and India.…
A new deal in West Asia?
Swiss radiation experts have confirmed the worst suspicion of independent observers of West Asia – that the death of Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 in France was…
Shaping of a nightmare
In his short innings as foreign minister in the Janata Party experiment of 1977-79, Atal Behari Vajpayee drove down to the L3 lecture hall at Jawaharlal Nehru University. The predominantly…
Nuke power
A well-heeled Pakistani American questions why our nuclear energy can’t be diverted to producing power in an effort to end the curse of load shedding. Because, I answer back, “America…
Obama won’t trip over Netanyahu’s Iran ‘red line’
US President Barack Obama visits Israel next week at the onset of spring - the "red line" previously drawn by his host, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to trigger an attack…
Remembering Hiroshima
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6 and 9, 1945, resulted in the killing of around 200,000 people within hours of the explosions, with hundreds of thousands more…
