Aug 23, 2015 General Hamid Gul was the military equivalent of Osama bin Laden who died with his boots on and blood of the innocents on his hands.
Aug 21, 2014 It's Nawaz Sharif's decision to continue the judicial proceedings against Musharraf that remain at the heart of the current crisis, the ultimate beneficiary of which would be the military establishment
Aug 06, 2014 One of the most detailed accounts of the doctrine(s), strategy, tactics and goals of the Pakistani Salafi jihadist enterprise Markaz Dawa’-wal-Irshad (MID), the terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its parent outfit Jama’t-ud-Dawa (JuD)
Jul 11, 2013 Has the ISI infiltrated US think tanks? A recent media report opens an interesting debate about the Pakistani intelligence agency ostensibly leveraging the United States think tanks' clout to further its agenda.
May 02, 2013 A tremendous compendium of information on local, regional and global dimensions and designs of the HQN known to date.
Mar 14, 2013 Seeking a swift solution to the problems of his beloved people, when there are no easy answers
Dec 11, 2012 Mohammad Yousuf Khan, a.k.a Dilip Kumar, or ‘Daleep’ Kumar’s 90th birthday is also being celebrated in Peshawar today
Nov 29, 2012 Without Pakistan reversing the reverse strategic depth it has given to the jihadists all this talk of ‘paradigm shift’ will remain hogwash.
Sep 06, 2012 So we are back to medieval times and the medieval discourse whether music is halaal (permissible) in Islam or is explicitly haraam (forbidden).
Aug 03, 2012 Pakistan remains a country where the India-oriented Punjabi jihadists rule the roost and religious minorities continue to be hounded and eliminated physically.
Jul 25, 2012 In 1969, people from Peshawar descended on Kabul in droves to watch Aradhana. And when Rajesh Khanna died, notwithstanding a few rants, Pakistanis also mourned the demise of the prince of passion.
Jun 13, 2012 It purports to actually put forth a unique and authentic perspective on the Taliban (their ‘aesthetic dimension’), but there is remarkably little that has been done to introduce the original 'poems'.
May 25, 2012 From Jinnah To GHQ: Not much has changed in 65 years in Pakistani thinking but what has changed is that Pakistan is no longer a geopolitical pivot.
Apr 19, 2012 The people of Pakistan had helped restore the present judiciary through great sacrifice in blood and treasure. The HRCP and ICJ reports serve as a reminder that their job is not done yet.
Apr 11, 2012 Ahmed Rashid's latest book would end up disappointing the serious and casual reader both.
Dec 08, 2011 The Pakistani foreign policy elite must stop projecting Taliban terrorists as peacemakers lest they intend to unleash another series of unfortunate events in the region just like the 1990s.
Dec 01, 2011 Memogate, an ambassador's resignation and appointment, and an openly confrontational approach by Pakistan since the NATO attack in Mohmand Agency are not a knee-jerk response...
Nov 23, 2011 Was it the alleged memo or was it the consistent advocacy of civilian supremacy, first as a scholar and then as an envoy, which earned Haqqani the junta’s wrath and cost him his job?
Aug 08, 2011 Why would a supposedly liberal op-ed writer blatantly paint an aggrieved minority as an aggressive fifth column of a hostile neighbour? And why should such a portrayal encounter sounds of silence instead of being called out as calumny?
Jun 23, 2011 Saleem’s gruesome death triggered a series of protests in Pakistan that seem to be drawing attention away from his important book, despite its flaws
Sep 09, 2010 The suggestion, even if well-intended, that the communities being targeted by terrorists should voluntarily restrict their activities in the open, could have far-reaching adverse consequences.
Jun 04, 2010 'And we wondered, whenever we had the time / Who the criminal, what the crime / ... And sun by sun, and night by night / The gallows grew to monstrous height...'