Not so holy anymore
ALTHOUGH most commentators and analysts agree that what is being witnessed today is chaos and a slide into anarchy, optimists may still argue some good will come out of it,…
A lesson from the Taliban
JUST a week before the third anniversary of the Doha Agreement, a high-profile delegation from Pakistan led by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif visited Kabul on Feb 22. It was not…
Paths to doom
AFTER years of slow decay, states that are nearing doom see a tipping point and a point of no return when their descent into the abyss hastens and is hard…
Forced expulsion
THE arbitrariness of our policymaking process has been very evident in our latest decision to expel hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrants. For decades, we hosted millions of refugees who were fleeing…
An uneasy relationship
ALL may not be well in relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Consider the recent verbal sparring between officials of the two countries. Last week, the Afghan deputy foreign minister accused Islamabad of…
TTP’s mentors
WITH the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan back in the killing business with renewed ferocity, it is time we took a look at its ideological moorings. In a nutshell, like the communist parties…
No good options
THE sight of thousands of people taking to the streets in South Waziristan to protest the resurgence of the Pakistani Taliban offers a ray of hope. It is a reminder…
Increased pressure
NEW ZEALAND’S PM Jacinda Ardern last week resigned from her post, conceding she didn’t have ‘enough in the tank’ to continue. The BBC covered this news with an absurdly sexist…
Issue of refugees
HUNDREDS of thousands of undocumented Afghan refugees are returning to their country. In principle, it makes perfect sense. No country allows illegal foreign nationals to stay on its land. Pakistan,…
Scapegoating the refugee
HERDED like cattle, over 1,700,000 Muslim refugees — more than twice the number of Palestinians evicted in 1948 by Zionist Israel — are presently being expelled from the Islamic Republic…
