Imran Khan’s Populism on May 27, 2023The May 9 sporadic violent attacks against the armed forces installations in Pakistan, mainly in the dominant province of Punjab, which is the backbone of the Army, by the angry youthful followers of deposed prime minister Imran Khan in a frenzied reaction to his humiliating arrest are unprecedented in the history of a ‘garrison state’. […]
Lambah informs us with choreographed details of behind the scene diplomacy and numerous backchannels on May 16, 2023Late Ambassador Satinder Kumar Lambah’s memoirs about India-Pakistan relations under six prime ministers of India are quite revealing in terms of chronically detailed reminiscences of three decades of directly or indirectly handling India’s policy towards, what he perceives to be a problematic offshoot of partition on the ‘inviable’ basis of religion. It is full of […]
Mainstreaming FATA on April 28, 2018Gone are the days of colonialism, yet we see its remnants to this day. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is such a space that was either eulogized for the ‘free spirit’ of our valiant tribesmen or abused as a lawless region. It came to be the epicentre of terrorist structures, which were rooted out […]