![Wajid Shamsul Hasan]( "Wajid Shamsul Hasan")
As I sit down to write a sort of obituary of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, I find my eyes dried of tears. Before me rolls a ...
12:47 PM, Oct 25, 2011
![Paarull]( "Paarull")
Hamid Karzai's "twin brother" talk hasn't deceived anyone - just like Pakistani denials about sanctuary for and support to the Taliban and associate groups haven't. ...
11:24 AM, Oct 06, 2011
![Wajid Shamsul Hasan]( "Wajid Shamsul Hasan")
President Zardari has been frequently targeted by the media whether being the head of the Pakistan Peoples Party or as president. His politics has become ...
04:24 PM, Sep 21, 2011
![Wajid Shamsul Hasan]( "Wajid Shamsul Hasan")
Pakistan's socio-economic life was topsy-turveyed by devastating floods last year described four times deadlier than Asian tsunami. While it was yet struggling to get back ...
03:35 PM, Sep 12, 2011
![Surya Gangadharan]( "Surya Gangadharan")
I was told not to be a fool by a retired brigadier, an authority on nukes. The Prahaar, he said, was based on the army's ...
10:29 AM, Jul 27, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
India needs to understand that the absence of violence in the Kashmir Valley is not peace, and that development and dignity for all Kashmiris go ...
11:25 AM, Jun 23, 2011
![Wajid Shamsul Hasan]( "Wajid Shamsul Hasan")
For me she is still around. Though conspirators against democracy, empowerment of the less privileged, perpetrators of obscurantism, extremism, bigotry, interfaith conflicts and doomsayers of ...
11:48 AM, Jun 22, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
"Journalist sabka dost hota hai (Journalists are everybody's friends)," was Saleem Shahzad's response when I asked him about the Taliban connections of a common acquaintance, ...
10:23 AM, Jun 03, 2011
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies department of King's College, London, and author of the book Pakistan: A Hard Country, among many ...
01:48 PM, May 31, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
Not only is the Pakistani public angry, but this is the first time in the country's 63 years that the Army chief and the head ...
10:13 AM, May 23, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
As the years have passed, what amazes me is the perseverance of journalists who continue to cover the story. There's even an irrational hope that ...
03:46 PM, May 22, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
Perhaps the darkest period in this regard came in the late 90s and 2000, when militancy driven by the Lashkar-e-Toiba was at a peak. The ...
03:54 PM, May 21, 2011
![Shiv Visvanathan]( "Shiv Visvanathan")
His Holiness the Dalai Lama once commented on George Bush by saying, "He brings out the Muslim in me." Put with all the delicacy and ...
06:31 PM, May 20, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
The militants we met were probably the last batch of fully home-grown insurgents fighting in Kashmir. 1995 marked the takeover of the struggle by non-Kashmiri ...
03:45 PM, May 20, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
There are so many ways of describing the tragedy of the Kashmir valley, but my favourite is the comparison to a very beautiful woman. In ...
02:39 PM, May 19, 2011
![Surya Gangadharan]( "Surya Gangadharan")
This, spoken vehemently by a boy no more than 7 or 8 years old in the lift of Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel. He was looking directly ...
11:54 AM, May 16, 2011
![Wajid Shamsul Hasan]( "Wajid Shamsul Hasan")
Dead Osama bin Laden's (OBL) ghost has struck again claiming over 80 lives in Charsaddah. As a consequence of May 2 Abbottabad episode such incidents ...
05:15 PM, May 13, 2011
![Tuhin A Sinha]( "Tuhin A Sinha")
While practical considerations may rule out India doing a Geronimo EKIA on the 26/11 kingpins, Dr. Singh's extra pacifist approach is nothing short of a ...
02:11 PM, May 12, 2011
![Hemender Sharma]( "Hemender Sharma")
The American discovery of the Abbottabad mansion from which Osama bin laden was directing his al-Qaeda operations for the past five-six years has brought Pakistan ...
06:17 PM, May 09, 2011
![Subir Bhaumik]( "Subir Bhaumik")
The surgical commando strike that killed Osama Bin Laden at his Abbotabad mansion has demonstrated that the US is prepared to do whatever it takes ...
04:01 PM, May 09, 2011
