INTRODUCTION: Since May 2014, The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) began collecting data on heinous crimes from the local press covering the national spectrum....
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Pakistan’s Predicament
Is Afghanistan going back to the peace talks that received a deadly blow late in July? Some developments suggest so. Let us begin with the Taliban. As reported in the national...
The LNG Deal and the Masters of Spin
by Arshad H. Abbasi The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources published an op-ed in August defending his Ministry’s actions in the LNG process. The “facts” cited in his...
Is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Pakistan’s lifeline?
by Farooq Yousaf, for South Asia Democratic Forum" A featured story recently published by Forbes magazine read “Pakistan: The Next Colombia Success Story?” For many, this story...
Who will Save Siachen?
Whenever any high-ranking US officials visit Pakistan, we brace ourselves for the mantra of ‘Do More!’. However, this time when the US National Security Advisor Susan Rice made...
Change on the Balochistan Horizon?
A series of new developments in Balochistan suggest there is change on the horizon. Firstly, Dr Allah Nazar, the mercurial chief of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) – one...
Counter Terrorism: The Sri Lankan Way
Until May 2009, Sri Lanka was one of the worst-affected countries by terrorism. The island nation struggled against the scourge for more than three decades. Formed in 1975,the...
A Money-Making Mill
Is there another financial fraud in the making around the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM)? This question flows straight from the recommendations of the financial advisers appointed by...
A French Revolution in India
I do not want to sound alarmist, but it looks to me that some kind of French Revolution is inevitably coming about in India. Consider the facts. All our state institutions have...
Delhi is literally a shithole; but so is all of India
In his 1960 exploration of eastern mysticism, The Lotus and the Robot, Arthur Koestler compared the smell of Bombay to that of “a wet smelly diaper” wrapped around his head. Four...
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