The writer is a former foreign secretary. Chief Minister Narendra Modi...
On this gloomy Independence Day, in the aftermath of yet another brutal...
Occupied Kashmir is aflame again, with Kashmiri people facing the...
The writer is a former foreign secretary. Despite Prime Minister...
In the 1980s, once driving on a busy New York street, I was struck by a...
We are endlessly lost in what could pass for a puppetry drama where...
“On 23rd March, 1940, a group of valiant and fiercely determined...
The writer is a former foreign secretary. Nations are not led by leaders...
The outgoing year ended on an unexpectedly positive note in the...
Terrorism continues to haunt the world. The problem is that in the...
Despite Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s unrelenting overtures for peace between India and Pakistan, the two nuclear-armed neighbours remain inextricably tied together in a straitjacket with each...
The writer is a former foreign secretary. Former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri deserves praise for rejuvenating the Kashmir issue. Nobody else could do it; not even Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in...
The month of September every year comes and goes without changing anything in our turbulent world, but for the world’s leaders it brings the season of a ‘global carnival’ that takes place with...
This year the nation observed Defence Day all over the country with unprecedented zeal and solemnity. It was indeed an occasion to acknowledge the supreme sacrifices given by our martyrs and share...
The writer is a former foreign secretary. It was indeed with a sense of supreme satisfaction at the fulfilment of his mission that Quaid-e-Azam told the nation in his last message on August 14,...
T S Eliot was not joking when he said “the Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.” President Obama got this ticket too soon in his presidency....
The negotiations over the Iranian nuclear deal in Vienna seem to be struggling through last minute hiccups, with both sides trying to manoeuvre maximum advantage. The final deadline of June 30 had...
Whether we like it or not, India’s Narendra Modi is in the driver’s seat at least in controlling the ‘temperature’ in Islamabad. He just has to ask his ministers to utter a few irresponsible...
