2020’s threat landscape
In the last five years, Pakistan has remarkably turned around its fight against the twin threats of extremism and terrorism. The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 also acknowledged this fact.…
US widens surveillance to include ‘homegrown violent extremists’
The US government has broadened an interpretation of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to include "homegrown violent extremists," according to official documents seen by Reuters.…
US widens surveillance to include ‘homegrown violent extremists’
The US government has broadened an interpretation of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to include "homegrown violent extremists," according to official documents seen by Reuters.…
Leaning to the right
As Pakistan and its military continue to fight a courageous battle against militants both in tribal areas and in other parts of the country, it seems that a larger number…
Addicted to guns
Fifty-eight dead and counting; 500 sent to hospitals. The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history took place Sunday in Las Vegas, as a lone gunman firing from a window…
Complicit or ambivalent?
Hafiz Saeed has been place under house arrest under the Anti-Terrorism Act, we are told. Why has he been detained at this time? Is it due to UN Security Council…
What Modi shouldn’t do
Speaking at Dhaka last year, Modi had proudly boasted about India’s role in the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. Later, on India’s Independence Day, he overtly supported the secessionists in…
A dangerous approach
Are we still too naive to determine our enemy? Certainly not, but only if we have common sense and we keep our eyes wide open. We must also keep in…
The farewell
Tuesday night, January 20, 2017, Barack Obama gave his farewell address to the nation. The scene was a strange and disappointing attempt that failed, to replicate the hope, the energy,…
What Modi shouldn’t do
Speaking at Dhaka last year, Modi had proudly boasted about India’s role in the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. Later, on India’s Independence Day, he overtly supported the secessionists in…
