The Khalilzad factorAs coincidences go, it could not get much better than this. To have Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special envoy for Kabul peace and reconciliation, in town a mere day after the Centre announced that it wou...
The Bihari girl-childThe precarious situation of the Indian girl-child is making headlines once more. Indeed, the beginning of the week saw activists calling on the authorities to protect girls in state-run institutions w...
Arms racePakistan has reportedly yet to officially approach the IMF for a bailout. This is perhaps understandable given the country’s busy schedule. After all, it has just signed eight Memorandum of Understand...
October manifestationsAmongst the twelve months, October is most enigmatic in its multifaceted manifestations in the history of Pakistan. In this month Muslims of India were rendered into "hewers of wood and drawers of wat...
Afghanistan: the US’ longest warOn October 7, 2001, the US attacked Afghanistan ostensibly to punish Osama Bin Laden and his harbours, the Taliban regime. Within less than a month the Taliban regime was decimated; majority of the Ta...