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Ahmed Quraishi
Ahmed Quraishi

  • August 06, 2020

    The world’s biggest land grab - Part III

    US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate the Kashmir conflict...

  • August 05, 2020

    The world’s biggest land grab - Part II

    Who could have thought that India would see the day when religious...

  • August 04, 2020

    The world’s biggest land grab - Part I

    India’s credentials as a responsible member of the international...

  • April 08, 2020

    To bring down Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman

    No accountability drive is credible without nabbing the powerful. So, it...

  • September 10, 2019

    India suffers setbacks in UN on IOK, Assam

    Qureshi’s arrival in Geneva marks acceleration of efforts by Pakistan and the pro-Kashmir activists to push for a multilateral intervention in Kashmir, the chances of which have increased since...

  • July 04, 2018

    Reworking relations

    Pakistan and the US won the Afghan conflict and the cold war in 1989 and...

  • May 03, 2017

    Who broke the consensus?

    At the peak of the popular anti-India movement in Kashmir, a leak was...

  • March 05, 2014

    Terror politics

    Who saw the interview that Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, gave to my colleague Hamid Mir

  • February 13, 2014

    Confusing TTP

    Should Pakistan be confused on talks with the TTP? It should not. But it is obvious that the media a

  • February 05, 2014

    Kashmir

    During the last days of the Bush administration, many of civilian and military aides to Bush conclud

  • December 26, 2013

    The coming war

    The Middle East media is abuzz with debates and discussions on the region’s next big war, and everyo

  • December 18, 2013

    Indira’s war

    Pakistanis have shown remarkable ability to introspect and critique our own internal failures that l

  • November 13, 2013

    Army versus JI?

    Pakistanis face a dangerous internal division at a time when the homeland is under attack from multi

  • November 06, 2013

    TTP camps

    If the United States was interested in punishing the TTP terror group after the murder of seven CIA

  • October 30, 2013

    The Kashmir cause

    American peace activist Rachel Corrie travelled from her hometown to Rafah to defy an Israel Army bu

  • October 12, 2013

    Disengage

    India’s lame-duck Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travelled to the United Nations with an agenda again

  • September 12, 2013

    Ailing India

    A politician uploads what is now suspected to be a manipulated or fake video showing Indian Muslims

  • August 13, 2013

    India and Afghanistan

    The suicide and gunfire attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad near the Pakistan border over th

  • August 01, 2013

    Polls and prisons

    The presidential election was another lost opportunity for Pakistani democracy. The way both the rul

  • July 13, 2013

    A lesson

    Egypt is a lesson for Pakistan in how the combination of unbridled, destructive politics and foreign

  • July 03, 2013

    Enduring failure

    President Karzai is a troubled man these days. With the planned American and allied military withdra

  • June 19, 2013

    Speak directly

    The attacks in Quetta and reports of massive American online spying on the Pakistani government’s co

  • June 12, 2013

    Drums of victory

    President Zardari made history - however small - on Monday by becoming the first Pakistani president

  • June 05, 2013

    Indian expectations

    There was a visible excitement in India when Nawaz Sharif emerged as the next prime ministerial cand

  • May 29, 2013

    TTP and the Washington slot

    Talks with the TTP terror group and the appointment of a new envoy to Washington are two issues topp

  • May 24, 2013

    A standing ovation

    The residents of Pakistan’s largest city deserve a standing ovation from the rest of the nation. Des

  • May 16, 2013

    The convergence

    Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif probably have been too consumed by their personal rivalry to notice a ma

  • May 01, 2013

    Parties of the NRO

    The assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 was a seminal moment in P

  • April 25, 2013

    New faces

    Since the 1980s, British democracy produced nine prime ministers, two of them – Margaret Thatcher an

  • April 19, 2013

    Purging candidates

    The concept of pre-selection of candidates running for public office in Pakistan is a welcome develo

  • March 27, 2013

    Bell the democratic cat

    Pakistan has just sworn in its first non-criminal, non-corrupt, and non-elected prime minister in fi

  • March 13, 2013

    The ostrich option

    We, in Pakistan, are about to create a weak and unstable foundation for democracy. The democratic sy

  • March 07, 2013

    A confused government

    Pakistanis are deeply disturbed and confused after three major sectarian terror attacks in Quetta, L

  • February 13, 2013

    Seize Kashmir

    The recent developments in Kashmir and India offer Pakistan a fresh opportunity to redesign policy.

  • January 30, 2013

    Change and confusion

    Pakistan can be turned into a stable and prosperous nation with a functioning democratic system in a

  • January 17, 2013

    Judges and generals

    The National Reconciliation Ordinance and this corrupt and inept government were the gifts of

  • January 09, 2013

    Beyond elections

    Looking beyond the coming elections, Pakistan’s future looks bleak. There is little question that el

  • January 03, 2013

    India and hate

    The terrible gang rape of a college student on a public bus in the Indian capital might end up havin

  • December 06, 2012

    Where CIA stumbles

    Thanks to Pakistani, American and British activists, the CIA’s illegal drone warfare in Pakistan rec

  • November 16, 2012

    Pakistani democracy

    Pakistan’s unstable democracy completes five years. The occasion merits a review of what kind of dem

  • November 10, 2012

    Military under attack

    Gen Kayani’s statement protesting the assault on the morale and reputation of Pakistan’s armed force

  • October 31, 2012

    Watching Kuwaiti democracy

    One of the oldest democratic experiments in the Gulf is about to undergo change. As Tunisia and Egyp

  • October 17, 2012

    Not in her name

    Malala Yousafzai is one more Pakistani whose story symbolises this nation’s resilience, talent and s

  • October 10, 2012

    The ‘good’ drone

    When was the last time a Pakistani political party helped set the world news agenda for a day? Pakis

  • September 28, 2012

    Hate by govt

    It is not enough to dismiss Sept 21 as an expression of hate. The event underlined a dangerous level

  • September 20, 2012

    Banning YouTube

    Banning YouTube, which no other Muslim country has done except Afghanistan and Bangladesh, appears m

  • August 09, 2012

    What deal?

    The dinners that brought the ISI and CIA officers together in Washington were impressive. But no amo

  • July 26, 2012

    Interior corruption

    It is a concern how the federal Interior Ministry, the pinnacle of Pakistani domestic security, is w

  • July 19, 2012

    American blackmail

    President Obama’s unwarranted remarks on the international dispute of Kashmir are timed to blackmail