The minority report
On May 13, gunmen stepped into a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community in Karachi and opened fire killing 43 innocent civilians and wounding many. This attack is just…
Official secrets
There is little reason to be jubilant over the Indian government’s decision to set up a panel to look into the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (OSA) in the light of…
Crescents and stars
Anwar Gargash is not happy. The UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs took to his Twitter account within hours of the parliamentary resolution desiring neutrality in Yemen to upbraid…
After Iran, Pakistan?
ALTHOUGH most Iranians are celebrating their nuclear deal with the P5+1, the framework ‘understanding’, once implemented, will effectively block Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapons capability for the foreseeable…
Viewpoint: Unreasonable expectations
The Saudi-led ten-member Arab coalition, it seems, did not look before leaping into Yemen's internal conflict. After more than nearly three weeks of aerial bombings it is nowhere near achieving…
Denying the acceptance of forces that shape growth and investment
By growth we mean economic expansion as measured by any of a number of indicators such as GDP. Economic growth is an increase in the production and consumption of goods…
Forest ‘encounter’: sign of changing times
Ultimately what got Malik Ishaq, the doyen of Pakistan’s sectarian terrorists, was not his commitment to violence but his failure to read the shift in the national landscape. He got…
The Pakistan-India logjam
History shows that countries - like individuals - have an amazing capacity to pursue mindless short-sighted policies even in the face of the general recognition that such policies produce nothing…
Greece: why should you care?
This past Sunday, Greek voters resoundingly said ‘No’ to the bailout package that was offered to their government by the so-called Troika, comprising the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank,…
Do we need soft power?
Part - II Pakistan lies at the confluences of east, west and central Asia. Although it has good relations with the Arab world it is intrinsically a South Asian country.…
