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

I vividly remember the days in March 1993 when the Supreme Court was holding contempt proceedings against former Chief of...

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

In Indo-Pak sub-continent, the religious consciousness of the ordinary Muslims has always been sect-oriented. Majority of Muslims in the sub-continent...

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

The state’s handling of the TLP protests is the latest exhibit of how lust for clout remains the driving force...

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...

The Red Mosque never posed a military threat to the state of Pakistan, nor does it present any now. The...

I welcomed an Arab journalist friend in town in the final days of June 2007. The first thing he said...

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

In popular imagination of the Pakistani society, the country has to be larger and stronger than it is at present;...

The most important question for the newly-formed Taliban government in Kabul would be how to control or contain violence within...

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...

In the last couple of decades, the biggest gift that the political parties of Pakistan could extend to the people...

Every major regional player seems to be in talks with the Afghan Taliban