Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...
02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012

Shormishtha Panja

Delhi Musings |

Now that Barack Obama has won a second term, let's look at some of the reasons for his victory in what was predicted as a ...
01:34 PM, Nov 12, 2012

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Ever since the Memo scandal broke, our media mongers, whose previous almost daily predictions over the past four years about the demise of the democratic ...
01:03 PM, Dec 13, 2011

Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

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

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

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

Unapologetically Right |

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

In Conversation |

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

Neighbourhood watch |

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

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Since Pakistan has been in the eye of the storm, many books are being published on the future of the state. Not many are objective ...
10:46 AM, May 07, 2011

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

Pragati Ratti

Sanguine Symphony |

The world watched as the biggest news of the year broke: the most wanted terrorist and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead. US ...
12:16 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