NEW DELHI: The Indian Express reported on Thursday the handing over of a secret draft agreement on Jammu and Kashmir by the outgoing Indian prime minister to the current one in...
Mustafa Malik
The Plight Of Pakistani Minorities
Last week, a 50 year old Muslim man was beaten to death, and his son severely injured, by an enraged mob in Dadri, a small town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rumors of...
Pakistanisation of Turkey
Will the Syrian crisis and two million refugees have the same impact on Turkey as the Afghan jihad and the refugee exodus from Afghanistan had on Pakistan? This question has...
Kunduz Debacle: Time For Soul-Searching
by Naveed Hussain Afghan government troops, aided by coalition forces, claim to have wrested back control of the strategic northern city of Kunduz three days after it was overrun...
Why Pakistan’s First Drone Strike Should Worry Obama
by Michael Boyle In early September, the government of Pakistan joined an exclusive club. It became the fourth government in the world – following the United States, the United...
‘I don’t Know How I Survived’
People were pouring in from both sides, and piling on top of one another. One moment, I had enough room to extend both arms, and the next, I was in a human vise, unable to...
Education or Organised Extortion?
The recent legal action by the regional office of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against Dr Ihsan Ali, vice-chancellor (VC) of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, has...
Collective Responsibility
On September 18, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) carried out yet another brazen attack on military infrastructure in Pakistan. In the early hours of the day, the Badaber Air...
Politics, Militancy and Crime
Law enforcement agencies picked up more than 60 suspects, including about 30 Afghan nationals, in a number of raids in Islamabad on September 18. They seized weapons and...
Finding the Middle Ground
By directly telephoning Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to condemn the terrorist attack on the Badhaber Air Base, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani broke the ice that had formed...
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