Renju Joseph

Renju's Space |

Beaming all over the Indian media is the Pakistan flag freshly branded 'the suspect state', after the much rejoiced and equally condemned Osama killing. Pakistan, ...
03:31 PM, May 06, 2011

Priyarag Verma

Reverse Sweep |

Osama bin Laden is dead, the US has achieved what it set out to after 9/11 and Pakistan is red-faced that the world's most wanted ...
02:09 PM, May 06, 2011

Gillian Marie Hooper

Gill & Tonic |

US President Barack Obama announced on May 2 that the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a pre-dawn helicopter-borne secret operation ...
02:43 PM, May 05, 2011

Ipsita Shome

ON THE ROCKS: No Watering Down |

The late Al-Qaeda chief's hideout was a $1-million mansion in Abbottabad in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, not a menial cave on the rugged terrains ...
02:58 PM, May 03, 2011

Hemender Sharma

In Conversation |

"The people of Afghanistan, with their blood, courage and faith, are an inspiration to the cause of freedom everywhere" This was President Reagan in February ...
08:04 PM, May 02, 2011

Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

Unguided missiles over the border Even for a journalist privileged to have visited Pakistan more than a dozen times, this trip ...
05:57 PM, Apr 30, 2011

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Patience should be the name of the game if political stability is intended across the board in Pakistan. In politics stability comes through institutions. Unfortunately, ...
10:53 AM, Apr 20, 2011

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Prime Minister David Cameron made a landmark visit recently to Pakistan. It has gone a long way in reinforcing and cementing the profound relationship enjoyed ...
09:55 AM, Apr 15, 2011

Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

Speaking to a gathering of intelligence officials in New Delhi recently, India's Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Satinder Lambah revealed a small but startling ...
12:16 PM, Apr 05, 2011

Rituparna Chatterjee

Begging Your Pardon |

India will clash with Pakistan on Wednesday in an epic World Cup semifinal that will be telecast live to millions of wildly cheering fans. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 29, 2011

Hemender Sharma

In Conversation |

The India -Pakistan world cup semifinal clash at Mohali could not have come at a better time for the ruling UPA government in India. It's ...
06:32 PM, Mar 28, 2011

Soumyadip Choudhury

Pixelated |

Everybody and their mother-in-law is doing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take superhuman effort or an utter dislike/extreme ...
01:07 PM, Mar 28, 2011

Pragati Ratti

Sanguine Symphony |

On March 24 2011, the whole country was set for the big match - The India vs Australia World Cup quarter final. All the Indian ...
05:54 PM, Mar 26, 2011

Mahima Sharma

Storm Chaser |

"Wants all those pasting 'patriotic' messages on their walls to know that the day to pay homage to the real patriots was yesterday - 23rd ...
09:04 PM, Mar 25, 2011

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Shahbaz Bhatti's memorial meeting at the Pakistan High Commission (March 16) was definitely a profoundly sad occasion for all to remember a person who laid ...
09:49 AM, Mar 18, 2011

Paarull

PM77 |

So the talks about talks have finally resulted in talks. If all goes to plan, India and Pakistan will over the next six months have ...
08:22 PM, Feb 10, 2011

Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

If chain smses are a measure of the 'national' mood, then its clear what the popular opinion has been after every terror attack in recent ...
09:46 AM, Jan 14, 2011

Sagarika Ghose

Bloody Mary |

Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer's assassination has been viewed by many as the death of the dream of a liberal Pakistan. The believing yet secular Muslim, ...
07:14 AM, Jan 12, 2011

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

The ghastly assassination of Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer is a great loss for the Pakistani nation, Pakistan People's Party, President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime ...
10:15 AM, Jan 06, 2011

Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

YouTube describes it as the world's most ridiculous border ceremony. And that's putting it politely, as anyone who has watched the Wagah flag-lowering ceremony between ...
11:23 AM, Jan 03, 2011