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The writer is an independent security and political risk consultant.

A file picture of Muhammad Ali Jinnah addressing a crowd in Lahore

Hilarious and ultimately tragic lives of leaders who ruled Pak

Jinnah was convinced that he single-handedly had wrested Pakistan from the British Empire and that he alone would...

20 July 2018 12:41 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

As Army manages' Pak polls, future uncertain

The former Prime Minister's two sons, Hassan and Hussain, are also implicated but have been absconding for good reason.

12 July 2018 1:18 AM IST

J&K Governor Narinder Nath Vohra held a marathon meeting with all administrative secretaries and senior police and forest official at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar to discuss various issues concerning the state. (Photo: DC)

D©j vu in J&K: Finding a solution to get harder

The politically-canny BJP president, Amit Shah, seemed to have decided that enough was enough.

22 Jun 2018 12:48 AM IST

Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State By Madiha Afzal Penguin, pp. 192, Rs 599

An authentic take on how most Pakistanis feel about terrorism

The Army termed the matter as a threat to national security while the journalist who wrote the piece was banned from...

15 Jun 2018 1:24 AM IST

Pakistan violated ceasefire in Keri and Digwar areas of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

J&K challenges grow: Truce a tactical pause

The ceasefire and dialogue offer by New Delhi is, however, the only way forward.

8 Jun 2018 2:11 AM IST

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright, HarperCollins, Â£16.99

A timely warning about fascism to a tottering world

The fascist takeover of her native Czechoslovakia forced her to flee with her parents.

3 Jun 2018 12:41 AM IST

Directorate S: The CIA and Americas Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll, Allen Lane , Rs 799

Magnum opus on AfPak history Of CIA, ISI at work

A substantial part of the book is about the collusion between Pakistan's military-controlled spy agency, the ISI and the...

13 May 2018 6:14 AM IST

The Army has also submitted photographs of the vehicles damaged in the stone pelting by the unruly mob. (Representational Image)

Kashmiri mobs adopt Hamas line on protest

Civilian killings provoke extreme grief and even greater anger, further fuelling the cycle of violence.

14 April 2018 1:13 AM IST

A file photo of Hermann Kallenbach (right) with his friend Mahatma Gandhi in their South Africa days.

Shimon's Quest: From Israel to India, and Lithuania, with a touch of...

Shimon Lev fell in love with India with all its faults, peculiarities and attractions.

29 March 2018 12:59 AM IST

Social media connects us to the big wide world outside but ironically disconnects us from the real one. This yawning chasm between the offline and online only further isolates us, defeating the very purpose of going online at all.

Tech gamechanger in politics, governance

Hardik Patel had shown that even a skeletal organisational network leveraging technology could almost overnight become a...

29 Dec 2017 1:31 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, shake hands prior to their luncheon talks, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A stranglehold broken: Asian geopolitics shifts

India was forced to ship the biscuits through a long and circuitous route via Bandar Abbas port in Iran.

31 Oct 2017 12:13 AM IST

Researching for the book was like solving a mystery or puzzle'

The prognosis remains fraught because Pakistan feels it is about to achieve the strategic depth it has long sought in...

13 Oct 2017 12:46 AM IST