Saturday, April 26, 2025

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...

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 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...

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....

SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TERRORISM (April 2012)

Suicide BombingsAt least four Policemen were killed and six others injured when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Police Station on Circular...

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...

Arab Spring and UAE

"A single spark can start a prairie fire." ...

Simmering Kashmir

Democratic freedom that India prides itself has been missing from the IHK since 1947. The voice of Kashmiris has always been portrayed as a...