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Our Founders And Guardians

Our founders and guardians

A fellow-columnist has asked why “if we had to go through this (the mess that Pakistan has become today) did we go through the trouble of Partition?” (February 22). Let’s…

India’s Self-goal In The Valley

India’s self-goal in the Valley

On the morning of Feb 9, 2013, Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri convict on death row, lodged in New Delhi’s high security Tihar jail was taken from his cot by the…

People Who Must Do More

People who must do more

Four men stood having an animated discussion in front of graffiti on sidelines of the literary festival last weekend. In the black of mourning against the thick white background, someone…

Dangerous Liaison

Dangerous liaison

Pity the nation where the blood of innocents comes cheap and murderers live under state patronage. Malik Ishaq is not an ordinary criminal. The co-founder of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has been charged…

When A State Is Dysfunctional

When a state is dysfunctional

Who knows what a failed state is? Such definitions are for the academics and experts. But what one can easily ascertain is a state that is dysfunctional. For what would…

A Reprehensible Act

A reprehensible act

The sheer folly of executing Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail in Delhi on Feb 9 was well described by an ambitious former intelligence chief: `It has the potential to take…

War Without End

War without end

The major point of contention between the Afghan Taliban and International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) is the Taliban’s insistence that all foreign forces leave Afghanistan when the draw down ends…

Not A Perfect World

Not a perfect world

TheIran-Pakistan pipeline is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Islamabad and Tehran have signed an agreement to press ahead with the project and Tadbir Energy has offered…

Wise Monkeys

Wise monkeys

As the story goes, one day a young man told his mother that soon one of the members of the family would disappear. Next morning, when the family woke up,…

Hope On The Wane

Hope on the wane

Tragic as the recent loss of soldiers on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) is, the other significant casualty has been plummeting public confidence in the ability of…