The General’s Battle
The new chief of the armed forces will have to wage war of another kind
Elusive India-Pakistan Peace
South Asia’s problems are aggravated by the complex regional configuration with growing Indo-US nexus and India’s resultant strategic ascendancy in the region with an unprecedented influence in Afghanistan and serious nuisance potential against Pakistan’s security interests
A Long Journey to Nationhood
Pakistanis are celebrating the golden jubilee of their independence in an economically precarious, politically fractured and socially decayed society, but we have a future and can build it
Reshaping Pakistan
The days immediately after independence may not have been ideal for strengthening the roots of democracy, what befell the country in the subsequent decades has been harrowing
The Real Populists of Pakistan
"In war, truth is the first casualty," wrote Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy. Theodore Dalrymple, the English cultural critic, built on it further,...