Winning over Islamabad? on November 29, 2011Swamped opinion pages, provocative editorials, flying tweets, blog after blog, chit chat on talk shows and the unending stream of chartered flights from Washington to Islamabad — all faced with the same dilemma: what is it going to take to win over Islamabad? Is the Pak-US relationship even worth maintaining? The latest assault on the […]
Biryani diplomacy on August 26, 2011It is time to break away from the stiffness — dry cleaned designer jackets, gold and silver cufflinks, sparkling jewelry and air-conditioned drawing rooms. Pakistan and India should go back to their roots, and their leaders and diplomats should roll up their sleeves, loosen their ties and take their fellow counterparts to the local biryani […]
The intelligence business on July 12, 2011While conspiracy theories flourish and blossom in every discussion of domestic and international politics in Pakistan, these theories are now backed with physical ‘evidence’ of would-be secret designs after the Raymond Davis saga and the covert action raid deep inside Pakistan on May 2 against public enemy number one. These conflicted and unsubstantiated theories and […]