The worldviews
Recently while in Beijing, the US Secretary of State John Kerry came in for criticism at the hands of his hosts for calling for greater internet freedom in China. Kerry's…
AAP’s own Gandhi
The news that pacifist-scholar Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has joined India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will further confound political punters. Some of them were already watching the…
Memoirs of an angry warrior
‘Duty’ is an angry and occasionally self-serving account of the four and a half years Robert Gates served as US defence secretary. But the book also offers important insights into…
Switzerland’s EU treaties could face Brussels guillotine
European Union countries are currently mulling what to do if their strategic neighbour Switzerland bows out of an agreement on freedom of movement with the bloc, a move which could…
India: Mideast and beyond
With general elections around the corner, neither of the prime ministerial candidates has articulated their stand on crucial foreign policy issues, except for the occasional mention of Pakistan, China and…
The T-shirt revolution
The days of American pullout from Afghanistan are near. With the exit from next door, a similar emptying is expected in Pakistan: the American turning away is likely to mean…
Policy on the precipice
The newspapers, tickers and talk shows all drip with tragedy. The accumulation of the despair is hard to escape. Over the last decade, a depressing candour has swept through the…
Style of governance matters
The mystery about the system of governance Pakistan is now following needs to be resolved as quickly as possible if the state is to be saved from suffering avoidable embarrassment…
Syria talks stalemate brings threat of worsening war: analysts
Syria's regime and rebels are likely to ratchet up military pressure on the ground after the failure of peace talks, setting the scene for a grim escalation of fighting, analysts…
China, US promote ‘new model’ ties to avoid conflict
As US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Chinese leaders, state media blamed Washington for failing to calm "flaring regional tensions" in East Asia. Many US and Asian…
