The Line of Control
Haji Pir Pass is a vital geographical feature on the western Pir Panjal ranges that stride across Indian-occupied Kashmir and Azad Kashmir. This makes it strategic enough for both sides…
What is there to talk about?
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) delights in showing us off as a helpless and contemptible force. So last week, when the TTP’s offer of peace talks hit the newswires we perked…
Spotlight: ‘Popular take-over’ of the government in the offing?: Spanner in the works or saviour? Your choice!
Politics is in something of a commotion following Allama Tahirul Qadri's ultimatum, MQM's firm opposition to fresh delimitation of constituencies and to voter-lists correction, Sindh's unequivocal stand against Sindh Peoples…
Shooting in the dark
Indian and Pakistani armies have slammed each other for violating the Line of Control this week. Pakistan said Indian troops killed one of its soldiers in the Haji Pir sector…
A summit to ‘reset’ ties
‘WO baat sarey fasane mein jiska zikr na tha/woh baat unko bohat nagawar guzri hai’ (The matter that never figured in the entire discourse/that is what offended her the most)…
Warped in time
“Is this Jinnah’s Pakistan?” is by far the most frequently posited question in Pakistani public discourse. The question has now reached absurd dimensions in the aftermath of Punjab Governor Salman…
Path of defiance or political suicide?
On this day, the 25th of December, we go through the annual ritual of heaping accolades and praise on the founder of the nation. If we go beyond lip service,…
Viewpoint
The two principal characters in the memo scandal, former US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen and ex-National Security Advisor General Jim Jones, having confirmed its existence, the focus since…
Not on the same page
Some people don’t learn, do they? Even after all that has happened since May 2, we continue to behave like a jilted lover, complaining of America’s infidelity, hoping in the…
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…
