By referring a complaint against the European Central Bank's bond-buying policy to the European Court of Justice, Germany's constitutional court has side-stepped a crucial dispute over who has ultimate authority…
In 2006, the then President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, a native of Brazil's historically drought-plagued north-east, pushed through an idea that long-suffering residents of the region had been hearing…
Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate BJ Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in the Gujarat carnage case in December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part of the “larger…
As if to reaffirm the proposition that inter-state relations know no permanent friends and no perpetual foes, Iran and the United States are inching towards normalisation of relations. The Washington-Tehran…
Pakistan blipped briefly into view here in Washington D.C. this week as Sartaj Aziz and Khawaja Asif did the circuit in another round of the Strategic Dialogue. In a visit…
Altaf Hussain’s demand for a separate province, despite subsequent clarifications, has reignited debate on the role, status and even nomenclature of Mohajirs. Such debates take two extreme positions. Some argue…
WHILE growing up in Lahore a long, long time ago, eating out with the family usually entailed a choice between Shezan Oriental and Shezan Continental. The menu item I invariably…
THERE is an agenda for economic renewal that is now so well known, so oft repeated, that it risks being entombed in that temple where all good ideas go to…
The New Year brings old thoughts to mind. This time, our dear country, that we have grown to love and hate in the same breath, that has given us so…
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, in his article ‘Why free trade matters’, says: “Contrary to what sceptics often assert, the case for free trade is robust. It not only extends to overall…
