BY SHEKHAR GUPTA
Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his residence, that...
BY ABBAS NASIR
WHEN Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan makes statements such as a “majority of Taliban” are pro-Pakistan and pro-peace, who’d be surprised to find...
BY DR LUDWIG WATZAL
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual...
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
‘Scorched earth’ is the kindest phrase to describe the approach of the last budget (rather, vote-on-account) of India’s United Progressive Alliance in...
BY BRIAN LOFFLER
Once in a lifetime a truly game-changing event reshapes global society. Think back to 1833 when the British Parliament finally bowed to...
BY JAWED NAQVI
India’s feisty Dalit leader Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar scarcely finds place in our historical consciousness, having been airbrushed from much of the discourse...
BY SHAHID JAVED BURKI
Pakistan, ever reliant on external financial assistance, faces a very different international situation as the government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz...
BY MUNIR AKRAM
Europe and the United States have successfully encouraged a revolt against Viktor Yanukovych, the inept and corrupt, but elected, Russian-oriented president of...
BY ALI AHMED
A new study 'Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?’ conducted by the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War along...
BY VIJAY PRASHAD
In late February, Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with the welfare of the Palestinians, visited...
BY NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the former President of Sri Lanka, has among her photographs a collector’s item taken when she was an 11-year-old...
BY KHURRAM HUSAIN
THE strong demands for military action against the TTP have put one party and its position regarding militancy in a tight spot.
The...
BY CHRIS COLTRANE
At the end of last year, the BBC’s Panorama programme revealed that anti-poverty charity Comic Relief had invested millions of dollars in...