How a Hindu Pakistan will change Muslim Pakistan on January 26, 2019Is India becoming a Hindu Pakistan? This is what the critics in India are asking. They are asking this because, under Narendra Modi, the country has seen Hindu extremism. It has seen all kinds of anti-Muslim stuff from Bharatiya Janata Party’ leaders as well as from the Prime Minister himself. They believe that Modi has […]
Resolving Kashmir: myth and reality on December 10, 2018Prime Minister Imran Khan has recently said that Pakistan is looking at two or three different options to resolve the Kashmir issue. The news came after he had laid the foundation stones of the corridor project at Kartarpur on Nov 28 for Sikh pilgrims, a decision that won praise from both local and international audiences, […]
Pak-India tensions and life at LoC on October 27, 2018Tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi do not directly affect Pakistanis and Indians as they do Kashmiris, particularly people living across the Line of Control or LoC. Pakistan, that claims Kashmir its ‘shehrug’ (jugular vein), and India, that calls it its “atoot ang” (integral part), seem least bothered how their enmity affects the Kashmiris on […]
What failed Pakistan in the fight against terrorism? on July 18, 2018On July 13, around 132 people were killed and 180 injured in two separate terrorist attacks during election-related activities in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A suicide attack on an election gathering in the Mastung area, some 60km south-west of Quetta, killed 128 people including Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate for a provincial […]
China doesn’t want the Subcontinent’s ‘dirty laundry’ on June 13, 2018The latest summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) — a Eurasian political, economic, and security organisation, created in 2001 and led by China with the support of Russia — scheduled on June 9-10 in Qingdao, Shandong province of China will be over by the time this is published. There are plenty of issues — […]
Pakistan: befriending Putin’s Russia on March 27, 2018Pakistan did not choose to align with the Soviet Union when the US was struggling to prevent the spread of communism, but it has chosen Russia when the US — along with the UK and others — is imposing sanctions on the Kremlin. Among other things, the country joined the US bloc for existential reasons […]