The chosen one
INDIAN nobility was known for its quirks. The Nawab of Junagadh celebrated the wedding of his pet dogs with unaffordable pomp and extravagance. The last Nizam of an independent Hyderabad…
Will an Adlai Stevenson save us?
JOE Biden is only partly right. Pakistan can be a scary place with its nuclear weapons. So is India, which he forgot to mention. The evidence stares us in the face.…
A perfect global storm
Describing the ongoing global turmoil as a perfect storm, UN Secretary General António Guterres said in his speech at the World Economic Forum that cooperation was urgently needed in a…
Compete and contain
ON the eve of the 20th Chinese Communist Party congress, which later confirmed a historic third term for President Xi Jinping, the US announced its National Security Strategy, reiterating its overwhelming priority is…
Putin’s comeuppance
VLADIMIR Putin was already licking his wounds when he turned up in Samarkand last week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. Just days earlier, Russian occupying forces in the Kharkiv…
Pakistan’s image
A SINGLE incident, good or bad, doesn’t affect a country’s image. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s murder didn’t change our view of Japan. It remains that of a country peaceful, prosperous…
Peril and paralysis
IN his opening address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning about the troubled state of the world. “We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction”, as…
Masters of war
THE headlines from the Nato summit that concluded a week ago in the Lithuanian capital mainly reflected the prospect of Swedish membership and, more dramatically, the failure to invite Ukraine…
Troubled ties
THE outlook for Pakistan-India relations remains troubled. The prolonged diplomatic impasse persists, characterised by new irritants that have added to long-standing disagreements and disputes. When India, host of this year’s…
Pakistan’s image
A SINGLE incident, good or bad, doesn’t affect a country’s image. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s murder didn’t change our view of Japan. It remains that of a country peaceful, prosperous…
