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Ikram Sehgal

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The writer is a defence and security analyst, he is Co-Chairman Pathfinder Group, Patron-in-Chief Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) and the Vice Chairman Board of Management Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Institute of Nation Building).

A Window of Opportunity

The TTP has been insisting till very recently that they represented all the groups committing terror in Pakistan. Only when the terrorist acts continued...

From the Editorial Desk (April-2014)

Dear Readers, Now that the government has formed a new Committee for holding talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), will peace prevail again in Pakistan? If...

Stretching the Truth

Besides the recent dastardly attacks on policemen and Rangers in Karachi, the TTP brutally beheaded 23 Frontier Corps (FC) men in their custody in...

Reviving PIA

To quote my article “Keep PIA flying” (June 20, 2013), “Facing multiple crises simultaneously - most of them man-made - Pakistan’s workforce and institutions...

non-stop

The recent Islamabad attack highlights the fact that the TTP either, viz (1) has no control over most of its 30 plus factions (and...

From the Editorial Desk (February 2014)

Dear Readers, The World Economic Forum (WEF) is committed to improving the state of the world by assembling together and engaging business, political, academic, and...

Success and Failure

Our major problem is that we cannot seem to separate Counter-insurgency (CI) operations from Counter-terrorism (CT). Terrorism is more urban- based, insurgency normally operates...

The State of Insecurity

To trace the origins of insecurity in Pakistan we must study both the natural and contrived deficiencies in our social, political and economic sectors....
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