Tag: politics

Putin and Imran Khan: Speaking with one voice on Afghanistan?

Russian President, Putin, and Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan surprised the world when they spoke with one voice on Afghanistan during the just concluded 20th summit of...

What the world does not want to understand about Taliban & Afghanistan

London engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury is credited for producing the first-ever jigsaw puzzle around 1760. However, a further bit of research reveals that...

Pakistani Politics on edge and PMLN?

Pakistani politics enters mid-2021 amidst interesting national and regional developments; some of these are under the public radar – for instance, the fast-changing situation...

Modi could have visited Pakistan in October 2021

India and Pakistan were engaged through backchannel for more than a year. Focus of discussion remained normalization in Kashmir and its change of status...

Khadim Hussain Rizvi: The Man and the phenomenon! Will this be the end of...

In November, Covid-19 claimed a very unusual and controversial life in Pakistan. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the founder of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), died on 19th November in...

Kashmir, Gurdaspur & Mountbatten?

Alan Campbell Johnson, in his famous book, “Mission with Mountbatten” writes – while trying to explain why Kashmir, amongst the princely states, represented a...

Tracing the roots of BLA in the backdrop of PSX attack

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), came back into the limelight after it took responsibility for an audacious attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)...

Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan

Peace Agreement signed in Doha between the US and Taliban is certainly historic and a moral victory for Pakistan. But New Delhi is bound...

Complex Kaleidoscope of Pakistan’s political theatre

Political system remained under stress from Peshawar to Karachi. It seems as if outgoing Chief Justice, Asif Saeed Khosa, had fired a “silver bullet”...

Why Govt must send “Judge’s Reference” to Supreme Judicial Council?

Many lawyers, members of Bar Associations, retired Judges and media commentators are now making a case that Govt. should not rush to Supreme Judicial...

Kashmir Tragedy – An Identity of Eternal Pain?

Somewhere in October 1947, my mother, Najma, who was then four, was part of a refugee caravan in between Jammu and Sialkot. She was...

Indian occupied Kashmir: Internal, bilateral or international?

Comments of Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, on Kashmir, during his meeting with US President, Donald Trump, at Biarritz, France, describing it as a...

Imran Khan: From “Man on Container” to Prime Minister

August has many important transition points in Pakistan’s history. The country was carved out of the British Indian Empire on 14th August 1947. Gen....

Qatar & Pakistan building long term relationship

Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was in Pakistan for a brief one-day visit in the third week of June 2019....

Why Jadhav became so important for India?

Prominent Indian journalist, Praveen Swami, in his groundbreaking piece, “India’s Secret War” (Frontline, 16 February 2018) raises an interesting question: “Thirteen Indians are being...