Cruelty and injustice in the desert
Sri Lankans aren’t as prone to street protests as their other South Asian cousins. But when Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan Muslim girl, was beheaded in Saudi Arabia a…
By diplomacy, not revenge
Skirmishes at the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) in the Mendhar sector in Jammu have spilled blood and precipitated a crisis that could snowball into a destructive conflict unless it’s…
Defining times
This year promises to be an important one for Pakistan. The country has been undergoing rapid changes – an exploding youth bulge, disastrous politics and a virtual break down of…
Asia – the next economic giant?
Post "Great Recession" rates of output and employment growth in Asia surpassed these rates in all other regions. Asian economies have rebounded strongly and became the engine of growth of…
The trouble is family
Our politicians must want their children born 25 years old so that they can immediately win a seat in parliament. What else explains their hurry to induct them into politics?…
Shooting in the dark
Indian and Pakistani armies have slammed each other for violating the Line of Control this week. Pakistan said Indian troops killed one of its soldiers in the Haji Pir sector…
Unpleasant twists
Pakistan has been making almost heroic efforts over the last few months to put its relations with Afghanistan on an even keel and make a vital contribution to the reconciliation…
Behind this US influence
What Messrs Kayani and Zardari had to say about each other surprised no one. Most knew that theirs was a brittle relationship. What was irksome was that the two had…
A walk in the woods
If anyone nourished the fond hope that India-Pakistan relations are poised to achieve a higher trajectory that would have been conclusively dashed after watching the new Indian Foreign Minister Salman…
Turkey’s Erdogan decade
Not long ago, Turkey was a security state where the establishment controlled policy through a shadow government. A clandestine network of military officers and their civilian proxies exercised utmost ‘legitimacy’…
