Tag: Congress

Both the Congress and the BJP Whatever the Congress speaks, it sounds like an evangelist’s outpouring. The party was no different a few days ago...

Dashing Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s drastic designs, the US Congress on Thursday turned down the bill proposing curbs on American aid to Pakistan. Congressman Dana...

US lawmakers of both Democratic and Republican parties have slammed the Obama administration's request for $2.4 billion for Pakistan, calling it a "black hole"...

A House of Representatives panel moved on Wednesday to cut $800 million that was requested for a special fund for training and equipping Pakistan's...

Will it survive this summer? A fall from grace is par for the course. A slide into humiliation is another discourse. Defeat is the familiar...

Not a carnival but a circus Elections in India have lost the carnival spirit because no processions, no buntings, no bands and no posters are...

The Representatives from California has presented a resolution regarding Balochistan’s precarious condition and it has been passed by the US Congress. It asks for...

National security vs welfare state Should the priority and focus of the state be national security or the security and welfare of the people who...

Congress couldn’t get its act together How did relations between Samajwadi Party and Congress descend, within the space of half a campaign, from flirtation barely...

A US Congressional delegation, which reached Islamabad on Thursday amidst fresh tensions between Islamabad and Washington over recently introduced resolution in American Congress seeking...

Elections in India At noon on March 6, or perhaps an hour earlier, a great impasse will begin in parliament. This is not an astrologer’s...

Pakistan on Saturday said the draft resolution on Balochistan tabled in the US House of Representatives was an “unfriendly and irresponsible” attempt against the...

The United States Committee on Foreign Affairs convened a congressional meeting on Thursday for an exclusive discussion on the situation in Balochistan. The Subcommittee...

India’s ruling Congress party on Friday disapproved of party leader Mani Shakar Aiyar appearing on a Pakistan TV talk show in which Hafiz Muhammed...

Remembering Bacha Khan Leafing through the pages of history searching for heroes who envisaged a better world, we often come across great names such as,...

Lawmakers returning from a three-week winter break were greeted Tuesday by hundreds of protesters from the “Occupy” movement, who gathered outside the US Capitol...

Marriages of convenience are the mainstay of politics The much-married diva Elizabeth Taylor had an unanswerable riposte for a pesky reporter after one of her...