Where’s Kashmir in the new order?
Global security and the world order are in the process of being re-jigged. The 2012 Chicago summit is one reflection and indication of this. America’s and NATO’S scheduled exit from…
Afghan drivers endure bad roads, bandits, corrupt police
It used to take Uncle Mir only three days to reach Kandahar in southern Afghanistan from the northern town of Hairatan. Now it takes him at least 20. Haji Hajat…
A human hero
Almost exactly in the middle of Freedom at Midnight a detailed history of the Partition of India, Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins relate an incident that took place days, even…
The water factor
Water is likely to be the most divisive issue between India and Pakistan in the future. Or water could, with imagination and political will, become the basis for enduring bilateral…
On simplistic solutions
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, leader of PML-Q, said the other day that the problem of terrorism in Pakistan can only be resolved if US and NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan. He…
Nobody supports the Taliban but…
The picturesque Swat valley is still under the army’s control. Although businessmen are confident as the property market is stable, people are generally worried. They simply want an end to…
Perfidious mindsets
Details of the Jinnahpur controversy and acceptance of ISI funds by politicians comprising the IJI adds nothing significant or new to public understanding of those events. It is merely another…
Jaswant Singh’s premonitions
One can only wonder what it was that drove a man of such erudition as Jaswant Singh tearfully back into the fold of the BJP – from which he had…
Was this the end ordained?
How many times must we be put to the necessity of repeating Faiz’s immortal lines? “Ye daagh daagh ujaala, ye shab-gazeeda sehr...woh intezar tha jiska, ye woh sehr toh nahi.”…
Egypt’s Zia ul Haq?
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has been dubbed Egypt’s new pharaoh, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Cincinnatus, Benito Mussolini, Abraham Lincoln, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and even another Hosni Mubarak. Comparisons and juxtapositions are being…
