Dr Ejaz Hussain

It is my pleasure to be back to these pages after more than a year as I was away due to my academic engagements that made me travel to different parts of the world. The motivation to resume writing came from some close friends and a broad range of readers who are deeply concerned about […]

Addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on September 30, 2015, the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif, preferred peace to warfare with the country’s archrival, India, in particular and Afghanistan in general. Having been humiliated and castigated by the national media after the Ufa summit that took place in Russia a few months […]

Pakistan’s 12th general elections were held in May 2013 in which the PML-N gained a landslide victory. Subsequently, Nawaz Sharif formed the government, becoming prime minister (PM) of the country for a historic third term. This article is an attempt to examine the performance of his government. For this purpose, I will assess the government’s […]

Senator Mushahidullah of the PML-N has apparently wreaked havoc by alleging that the ex-ISI chief, Zaheer-ul-Islam, hatched a conspiracy against not only the Nawaz Sharif-led civil government but also the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Raheel Sharif. The senator disclosed this information on August 14 on BBC Urdu. His interview video went viral and […]

It took two years for the Afghan government to become aware of the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the leader of the Taliban group in Afghanistan. The confirmation of the death of Mullah Omar created a news explosion in the Afghan media. After the revelation of the death, many questions have risen about the Taliban’s […]

India-Pakistan relations have oscillated between confrontation and cooperation. Though the conflict side of the relationship has had been immensely dominant on the discourse, politics and foreign policy of the two countries, the cooperative aspects of bilateral interaction also require due attention. Interestingly, the existing body of literature on India-Pakistan relations has been dominated by realists. […]

The terror attack on the children’s school in Peshawar has apparently jolted society, politics and the state of Pakistan to the extent that yesterday’s political enemies (Sharifs versus Imran Khan) were seen sitting together with the desire to conclude a plan of action within a week to deal with terrorism effectively. The chairman of the […]

As predicted in this space on November 30, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) remained unable to channelise its political gathering on November 30 into a coherent political force capable of putting pressure on the government to accept its demand of opening an independent and objective investigation into alleged rigging during the 2013 general elections. Interestingly, the […]

South Asia has always been a source of strategic and economic attraction for regional and international powers. From ancient Central Asian invaders and medieval Muslim conquerors to European colonisers, this resource-rich region has assumed irreversible significance even in the modern era. For instance, during the Cold War period, the capitalist world under the leadership of […]

Pakistan’s political landscape is quite unique in terms of hosting a set of ever-competing politicians, judgmental judges, mighty military, rational bureaucracy, corporate media and a divided and increasingly intolerant society. From a vendor selling used and smuggled jackets on the outskirts of Aabpara Market to a western-educated professional, everybody loves to give their opinion when […]