Lingering Indian predicament
An Indian drone violates Pakistan’s borders and the plot thickens
Peace talks between India and Pakistan had been suspended after the LoC firing and the...
A meeting Modi-fied
Optics not good at Nawaz-Modi talks
The recent Nawaz-Modi meeting was an excellent manifestation of diplomacy by India, if we look at what Daniele Varè,...
When Nawaz met Modi – again
How diplomacy is tested
At the meeting of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation...
Imran Khan gets daughter’s footprint tattooed on chest
Mumbai - Our Bollywood Correspondent: Imran Khan, the Bollywood celebrity who is not to be confused with any other individual bearing his name, has tattooed the...
Zaid Hamid joins ANP
“I was wrong. Secular democracy only way forward.”
Our Gulag Correspondent: Noted Pakistani rightist ideologue Zaid Hamid shocked many when he took an about-turn and applied...
The man with the golden pen
Ibn-e-Safi -- April/May 1928 — 26 July, 1980
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader.
–Isabel Allende
During a...
A vintage of poetry
A fusion of meaning in language
Prof Dr Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi has been ranked as a distinguished national professor by the HEC. He is...
Pakistan and the key to AfPak
From strategic depth to securing peace
For the first time since 9/11, Pakistan is at the centre of AfPak for the right reasons. The Murree...
The future of talks with Taliban
Some constructive steps
The meeting between the Afghan government delegation and the Taliban was a class apart from earlier meetings of the sort. The Afghan...
Pak-Afghan conundrum
A glimmer of hope
In the past six months, we have witnessed Pak-Afghan relations shift from one spectrum to the other; although some would say...
Flawed paradigm
Protecting national interest or digging our own grave?
The doctrine of strategic depth, a legacy of General Ashraf Beg from the 1980s, is not much...
Nobody can afford to go back (to the Karzai days)
Everybody’s on board, finally
Ahmed Rashid talked and warned about the Taliban before anybody else. His Taliban (2000) was the first exclusive account of how...
Lives and times of Muslim socialists
Socialist somersaults
This is the story of the Muslim socialists in the pre-partitioned India. What was their relationship with the communist Soviet Union and the...
Abdullah Hussain: A giant in Urdu literature
His works will keep him alive forever
Over fifty years have passed but it is still a daunting task to determine whether Abdullah Hussain created...
Greece seeks copyright revenues from anyone practising “democracy” anywhere on globe
Desperate times, desperate measures
ATHENS - Our Greek Correspondent: In an aggressive move by the left-leaning government of the Syriza party, Greece has formally decided to...
Nation’s respect-for-elders reserves depleting at alarming rate, claim nation’s elders
ISLAMABAD - Our Elderly Correspondent: Speaking at the annual conference of the National Elders Forum (NEF), the nation's elders restated their fears – like last...
Lawyers’ movement — with great power come dashed expectations
From rule of law to rule of judges
When the lawyers’ movement gave birth to the Black Coat Protests in 2007, Pakistan was ready for...
