For some it is an adventure, and therefore they don’t desist from throwing their punches in public. For others, it...

Pakistan’s Islamist and India’s secular experiments both turned out to be failures. In the case of Pakistan, the modernist form...

Don’t insult the prime minister. And don’t undermine his/her political and administrative authority. No matter who occupies the position, the...

One of the remarkably depressing features of the Pakistan-India military equation is the absence of any effective and elaborate structures...

Pakistan's political leaders are a hapless lot. They demonstrate, time and again, that they have no morality or ethical values...

American pragmatism in foreign policy is exemplary in the world of international politics. The US foreign policy establishment sometimes goes...

From 2006 to 2016 I was working as Islamabad based correspondent of the country's leading political magazine. The news organization...

The origins of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are obscure. But this much is known: that in the formative period of...

For those who are saying that the present tensions over the appointment of a new DG ISI are stage-managed, I...

Just like many former prime ministers in the post-Zia period, Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to come under the sway...

It is ironic that both the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Pakistan’s state apparatus were euphoric about the capture of Kabul...

15th August, 2021—the day the Afghan Taliban entered Kabul, was the day when any chance of a sustained and prolonged...

Since the early 1990s, American diplomacy in South Asia has largely remained focused on managing the tense relations between two...

The Taliban's record of governing Afghanistan in the 1990s was disappointingly dismal. The only legitimacy they claimed to have (or...

With the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan underway, a regional response to Taliban’s military victories has started to take...