Amit Ranjan

For almost a decade, Pakistan is in all sorts of trouble. In a single decade, it has witnessed strong military rule, a powerful anti-military rule movement by civil-society, assassination of one of its most popular political leaders, regime-change and coming up of a democratically elected government, and the high rise of Islamic fundamentalist groups. All […]

“In 1947 India and Pakistan were born to conflict.” This is the first line on the flap and gist of the latest book by Stanley Wolport, India-Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation. His assessment is correct because these two countries have a jeremiad of problems since independence, and instead of decreasing, the list has increased over […]

Balochistan is Pakistan’s restive province, where a movement for the right to self-determination and independence is going on since 1948. Last month in a hearing of a US Congressional Committee on foreign affairs, focusing on Pakistan, at least five members of the US congress belonging to both the Republican and Democratic parties supported the demands […]

Soldiers and terrorists have one thing in common: on the battlefield, both engage in indiscriminate killing. However, the battlefield connotes different meanings due to differences in profession, ideology, commitments and goals. The only difference lies in the legality of the killings. Soldiers have the sanction of the state and their acts are justified by the […]

In his article titled ‘India and the peace process’ (Daily Times, June 20, 2011), Rizwan Zeb has correctly mentioned that the success of the peace process depends on the extent India is willing to move. In fact, the former Prime Minister of India, I K Gujral, too, firmly believed in this policy. His famous Gujral […]