A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.
The terms of engagement that Imran Khan will offer will be no different from those of the past: dialogue under the shadow of calibrated terrorism and greater focus on issue resolution than building co-operative mechanisms through trade and connectivity.
Bhutto’s character traits, his late political life as PM, his controversial death...all that is brillianty lit in this biography, but it’s silent on his deleterious role in the 1971 crisis
From Gen Zia’s unchecked Islamisation to drug abuse and a rampant gun culture, Pakistan was deeply affected by USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan
More than Mortimer Durand’s arbitrary line that sliced the Pashtun homeland, this valuable book, anti-colonial in tone, is an account of the Great Game
Naming Balochistan, PoK and Gilgit is a bold new move
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