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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)

India's Kabul googly must be kept in play

Dodge or feint, Pak foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's comments signal a break from the past.

15 Dec 2018 6:38 AM IST

Maithripala Sirisena said he had ordered Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to revoke his decision last week to overturn the 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women. (Photo: AP)

In Lanka crisis, India can't sit on sidelines

Long-term Sri Lanka watchers say Mr Rajapaksa's India visit was to prepare Delhi for just such an eventuality.

13 Nov 2018 1:23 AM IST

From Kargil to the Coup: Events that shook Pakistan by Nasim Zehra, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Rs 2,283

Why Sharif endorsed Pervez's Kargil misadventure

Zehra writes, had not factored in the critical problems of logistical stretch.

21 Oct 2018 12:17 AM IST

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)

Will Taghir herald a new Afghanistan?

No representative of the Ghani government has participated in talks so far when as many as 11 members of the Taliban...

20 Oct 2018 1:14 AM IST

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visits the Prophets Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia (Photo: AP)

In Pak, the more things change, the more they stay the same

If there's one point the book drives home, it is that little ever changes in Pakistan.

28 Sept 2018 4:57 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

More to Pak rebuff than meets the eye

Three key BJP-run states that have had an indifferent track record in governance are heading for polls, and 2019 is...

23 Sept 2018 2:24 AM IST

China is like a long-lost cousin that we have found, a long-lost cousin who is willing to help us, he said on Thursday after Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen lifted a state of emergency in the troubled South Asian nation after 45 days. (Photo: File)

Maldives: Benign neglect isn't the way ahead

Either way, be it a Yameen or a Nasheed proxy calling the shots in Male, its time for India to dust off a fresh Maldives...

21 Sept 2018 12:26 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj greets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his arrival at Palam Airforce Station in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

At 2+2 talks, Pak the elephant in the room

India needs to be much more nimble-footed to outmanouvre Pakistan's newly-reinforced civilian-military government.

6 Sept 2018 7:54 AM IST

Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee waves from the maiden Delhi-Lahore bus service on his arrival at Lahore. (Photo: PTI)

The man who saw tomorrow: How Lahore bus was born

Nobody but a handful of Pakistani generals, who had boycotted the welcome ceremony as he got off the bus, did.

17 Aug 2018 1:35 AM IST

Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station for parliamentary elections in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Kaptaan a sitting duck, can he read military's doosra?

The headstrong fast bowler either doesn't know or is unwilling to acknowledge that when it comes to Delhi and Kabul, he...

29 July 2018 12:12 AM IST

Imran: Pak's gale force tabdeeli' for change

Will the gale force tabdeeli that he has unleashed be the change that the people of Pakistan have been looking for?

27 July 2018 12:29 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Pak voters face D-Day: Will they fight or fold?

The Army may have written Nawaz's epitaph and indeed of all freely elected governments.

25 July 2018 12:50 AM IST