Raashid Wali Janjua

What do the physicians do when the cancer metastasises in the body? They try every bit of the skill to rid the body of the insidious prowler inside. For any remedy to work in such situations, internal resilience of the body plays a supportive role more than any other factor. The good cells have to […]

The swamp of terrorism badly needs to be drained in Pakistan. Those who wreak havoc on the innocent in the name of religion or ethnic particularism need no quarters in this battle of national survival. A deadly slew of eight terrorist attacks in past five days have indicated the resolve and ferocity of the attackers […]

A new Asian century heralds the tectonic shift in the economic power matrix of the globe. With the trumping of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by the new US President, the decks have been cleared for the new kid on the Asian block, i.e. China. The recent revocation of TPP would go a long way in cementing […]

Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) comprises 39 Islamic countries with notable omissions like Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Tajikistan. The alliance with its military Command Headquarters based in Riyadh was announced as an Inter- Governmental Alliance first by Saudi Defence Minister Muhammad bin Salman on 15 December 2015.Its mandate was to counter […]

India has betrayed South Asia in the manner that once Sparta betrayed Greece. The peace dividend that could have altered the fate of one quarter of humanity in South Asia stands famished of an Indian munificence, a fact that has kept the region hostage to wars despite boasting one of the most plentiful human resources […]

September 1965 was like the famous battle of Jutland in WWI when the two navies — German and the British — went pell-mell into a climactic conflict like two blind gladiators charging at each other, each one afraid of other’s capabilities, yet ignorant of intentions. The 1965 war was a war born out of the […]

In the aftermath of Quetta attack there have been comments galore about the failure of intelligence agencies, and chickens of strategic policies having come home to roost, albeit in a macabre way. In a state such as Pakistan where a condition of anomie exists despite the presence of an interventionist Leviathan the solution may readily […]

The civil-military relations in Pakistani context have been bedeviled by a lack of mutual trust and understanding due to a host of factors. The colonial flavor of a socially sequestered military weaned more on a colonial as opposed to a democratic diet had to be sedulously tempered through a civilian leadership possessing adequate charisma and […]

The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it’s being broken —Boss Tweed in Gangs of New York   The above-mentioned quote summarises the reality of countries like Pakistan where a symbiotic linkage between crime and political patronage leaves the state institutions enervated and famished of a will to separate the two evils in […]

P5+1 nuclear agreement that heralded a much-needed thaw in the relations of Iran with the western world and the United States is full of lessons and portents for countries like Pakistan. As per the nuclear disarmament deal, Iran would dismantle all centrifuges except 6043, mostly at the Natanz nuclear facility, allowing only 5,000 centrifuges to […]