Remembering Benazir
December 27, 2012 marks the fifth death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of neo-colonial forces - pushing Pakistan to…
Learning from China
In the wake of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao`s visit to Pakistan and the signing of agreements and MoUs estimated loosely at $30bn, it is time we learnt from China`s development…
Jaswant’s prickly picking
Is it possible that Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah and partition should help the subcontinent’s scholars bury the mythology of partition that has been hanging around the South Asian people’s…
Kashmir in the new order
Global security and the world order are in the process of being re-jigged. The Chicago Summit was one indication of this.America’s and Nato’s scheduled exit from Afghanistan is most likely…
The partition game
Pakistan highest foreign policy priority: US A few years ago, the Bharatia Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani visited Pakistan and made a point of touring the mausoleum of Mohammad…
Wen`s India visit
One did not have to be an expert on China to anticipate that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India would be a flop and the one to Pakistan a…
Al-Qaeda
Pakistan’s first 9/11 was in 1948 when its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah passed away and the tremulous ecstasy of independence that had been achieved the previous year proved short-lived. With…
Good morning
Writing this column on the eve of Pakistan Day I was rather disappointed to see that the large imposing mausoleum of the Father of the Nation, Quaid e Azam Mohammed…
Gujrat riot in the making
President Asif Zardari may want to take note of this: one of his men has decided to openly put his faith in the powers at Aabpara. He is an old…
An emerging power
THE vision of Mohammad Ali Jinnah was for Pakistan to evolve as a modern, secular, democratic state, a leader of the Muslim world, which would make no distinction between its…
