Tension in Korea
The North Korean soldiers shown parading on TV recently mercifully didn’t have the gusto of German troops goose-stepping in 1914, which amply demonstrated their over enthusiasm for war nearly a…
Monopoly on wisdom
The recent book by a former chief of the general staff of the Pakistan Army has only added to what was generally known in informed circles, and once again there…
Gwadar and ‘the great game’
It is perhaps a less known fact that when President Richard Nixon visited Pakistan in 1973, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sought US help to construct a new port at…
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…
Getting real on Siachen
By now all of us know MJ9842, the actual ground position line (AGPL) on the Saltoro Ridge, and the three passes that flow downwards from Saltoro to Pakistan’s northern areas…
The deconstruction of Jinnah’s vision
When Jinnahbhai Poonja and his wife Mithibai were blessed with a baby boy they never imagined that the infant, whom they named Mahomedali, was destined to become a man of…
What did Mujib want?
During a parliamentary debate, Aitzaz Ahsan once chided his friend, late Sher Afghan Niazi about December being a difficult month for the Niazis of Mianwali. The remark, quite possibly, might…
No white heat revolutions
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson – twice elected – famously observed in 1964 that a week was a long time in politics. True to those words, the twist came…
