Tailors and terrorists
Last week, a news crew was permitted access to a “de-radicalisation” centre in Bara, in the now long embattled northwest of the country. It was a supervised tour, in which…
The terrorist tree
Capital suggestion Leaves: A leaf is a ‘blade-like flattened structure attached to a stem’. Leaves are typically above the ground and can be seen. Over the past 13 years, Pakistan…
Terrorist attack keeps Kabul restaurant patrons at bay
"These two people are our only guests since last Friday," says restaurant owner Mohammad Iqbal Aziz, pointing to a couple in the middle of Le Bistro, in a fortified area…
An incoherent foreign policy
The landmark agreement between the US and its allies and Iran on the nuclear issue is a regional and global game changer. A new world alignment appears to be emerging…
The foreign hand
Fishing in troubled waters is the unfortunate rule and not the exception in strategic thinking. Add to that the concept that an enemy of an enemy is a friend. And…
Nawaz’s foreign policy gladiator
The political leaders of Pakistan seem to believe that an inordinate display of public emotion can atone for their lack of honesty on drone strikes. The myths have to be…
Foreign policy challenges
THE new government emerging from yesterday`s elections will face difficult domestic problems. The external challenges it will confront are equally daunting. The most urgent foreign policy challenges could be summed…
Quaid’s vision of foreign policy
The Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned the newly independent Muslim state's foreign policy to be one of "peace with all, and enmity with none". Pakistan must…
IMU’s journey
THE withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has changed the dynamics of terrorism and counterterrorism (CT) in Afghanistan and its neighbourhood: while the operational capabilities of Al Qaeda appear weakened,…
What we must fight for
In the midst of this polycrisis for the ages, it is not difficult to enumerate all the things that are going badly and everything that is wrong. There is a…
