Cry, Lyari, cry
For the past several years now, Lyari has existed as a living tragedy and a festering wound of Karachi – the country’s commercial and financial capital. It is a place…
Italy red-faced over deportation of Kazakh dissident family
The Italian government has been embarrassed by allegations that police illegally arrested and hastily deported to Kazakhstan the wife of an opposition leader and critic of the oil-rich regime, along…
Of human bondage
The US State Department released the ‘Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, 2013 on June 19. The report has been regularly issued every year since 2001. It grades different countries of…
Two wars
Troubled Balochistan, in its unending series of sufferings, went through two most highlighted and yet insufficiently identified incidents of violence just a few days back. On the night between June…
Indo-China relations
For quite some time, the Chinese top leadership seems to have made it a point – as much as is possible – to visit India and Pakistan back-to-back. In 2006,…
Invisible enemy
Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) recently held a Cyber Security Conference at Islamabad. This paper analyzes key aspects of the discourse, captures important observations and recommends action points for securing…
Diplomacy and force
THE United States is just beginning to realise some ageold truths on the exercise of diplomacy and the use of force. While diplomacy without the sanction of force is impotent,…
Foreign policy challenges
THE new government emerging from yesterday`s elections will face difficult domestic problems. The external challenges it will confront are equally daunting. The most urgent foreign policy challenges could be summed…
Invisibility of mothers
As a new government enters the corridors of power in Sindh it will find itself empowered with an innovative and sensible document that lays down the gender guidelines for official…
Decision time
YES, there are many subplots and side stories, some worthy, others nostalgia-driven, but on this day, who really cares? There`s only one main event, one big show, one top billing:…
