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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).

The French Connection

The dramatic electoral changes in Europe will likely effect other countries of the world, more because of France than Greece, and for different reasons....

The State of Limbo

Yusuf Raza Gilani's imprisonment on a contempt of court charge lasted a little over 30 seconds, the conviction was enough to set off a...

This Hallowed Ground

A visit to Siachen 12 years after it became the highest and coldest battleground in the world evoked "WITHERING HEIGHTS" (Sep 19, 1996), "The...

The Afganistan Endgame Beyond Chicago

Trying to muddle way out of another unpopular war and loath to concede defeat, US and NATO have been racing against time to build...

The Agony about “Ecstasy”

Talking to the media, Col (Retd) Syed Akhtar Abbas, Director Legal of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), confirmed the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) probe...

Feudalism Stunts Democracy

The historian Marc Bloch defined "feudal society" as a warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage. A lord was a noble who held land, the land...

Leader-Shedding, Not Loadshedding

A friend of mine who chooses to remain un-named forwarded an SMS message presently roaming the ether, to quote "A question in the minds...

From the Editorial desk (April 2012)

It is unfortunate that Pakistan continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. While one acknowledges that as a developing nation it will...
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