South Asia has been the most prone to dynastic politics. Ever wondered why 51 percent of all the poor in the world live in South Asia? Dynastic politics is “a succession of rulers from the same family or line”. In North Korea, Kim Jong-il took over the reins of power from his father Kim Il-sung.
Jaswant Singh’s book “Jinnah India — Partition Independence” has elicited interesting reviews in Pakistan. They are interesting entirely because of how off the mark they are which shows how little…
Sardar Akhtar Mengal believes his six point formula will bring about resolution of major issues in the province. However, equating his charter with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Six Points was deliberately…
On December 25, we celebrate the birth of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah who was the liberator of our nation, but portray no signs of loyalty to the values he ordained.…
Personality matters, as personality shapes ambition and policy preference. The personalities that matter most on the subcontinent are India’s prime minister and Pakistan’s chief of army staff. Prime ministers Lal…
Move over, Jamat-i-Islami (JI), there’s a new danda brigade in town. But this brigade’s reactive gringos prefer mimicking the Tourette Syndrome and assorted incoherent abusive tics almost entirely in cyber…
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
For a lesson in the use of ‘soft power’, turn to Beijing. China has made culture and people-to-people contacts an essential cornerstone of its global diplomacy. The key focus so…
On Jan 26, Dr Manmohan Singh — a practicing Sikh prime minister of predominantly Hindu India — is scheduled to head to Rajpath, New Delhi’s equivalent of Islamabad’s Jinnah Avenue,…
The spokesman of the United Jihad Council (UJC) Syed Sadaqat Hussein’s belated attack on June 28 on the four-point formula on Kashmir reeks of factual error and unrealism. Gen Pervez…
