Significance of solidarity
Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the partition of the Subcontinent, awaiting its completion in conformity with 23 UN resolutions calling for determining the question of accession of Kashmir through…
Black flag zones
The mass murderer was reportedly dressed to kill — not in military fatigues but in a school uniform, and a backpack containing explosives that, when detonated in the midst of…
Sri Lankan lesson
AFTER three decades of protracted conflict Sri Lanka finally crushed the Tamil rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. Can Pakistan replicate the Sri Lankan strategy?…
The Indian rebuff
Pakistan’s civil and military establishment should be thankful to the hard-line Hindu nationalist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, for making the rules of diplomatic engagement with Islamabad clear in…
Kashmir: the obvious solution
In June I attended a reunion of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), in which I had served as deputy head from 1980-82. It was…
If talks fail
With peace talks floundering, should the government consider war now? The liberal conscience is troubled by the thought of the mass-scale death and destruction that wars usually cause. Conservatives focus…
The book remains the same
Two anti-national processes are simultaneously underway. Together they largely define the wretched degeneration of the political process in the country today. One is the fraudulent and prolonged charade being perpetrated…
Negotiating with the TTP
Despite a crippling heavy infrastructural, human and national loss over a decade the Pakistan government gave the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) yet another chance for peace via dialogue. The debate over…
The elephant in the room
Reports that the final resting place of the founder of the country as well as that of the national poet has been closed down because of fears that they may…
A state of anarchy
The deaths of innocent people in terrorist attacks are not mourned anymore. Growing fatalities are mere statistics. What matters is only the safety of the ruling elite; never mind even…
