ONE may inquire how essential regional security in South Asia is for bringing peace to Afghanistan after 2014, when foreign troops withdraw.
Published29 Mar, 201211:40pm
THE much-hyped report of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) called for an unconditional apology from the US over the Salala border post attack by Nato forces in the Mohmand Agency in November
Published22 Mar, 201208:34pm
THE results of a perception survey carried out with 4,000 respondents in Fata, enumerated in Understanding Fata Volume 5, are illuminating on a number of counts.
Published15 Mar, 201209:33pm
THE report Understanding Fata is the outcome of a yearly statistical exercise that documents the perceptions of the region’s people.
Published08 Mar, 201209:33pm
RECENTLY, the Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) issued its annual survey of the perceptions held by the tribesmen of Fata.
Published01 Mar, 201210:33pm
ONE wonders when the agony of Balochistan — and the rest of Pakistan — will end. This country of ours seems to have attracted the evil eye.
Published23 Feb, 201209:32pm
IT is becoming apparent that Pakistan is failing not because of the lack of capacity to do things related to the management of the country but largely due to what some scholars of state collapse have identified as ‘wickedness’.
Published16 Feb, 201211:40pm
RECENTLY, Peshawar hosted a seminar organised under the auspices of the Centre for Discussions and Solutions, an advocacy organisation created by Qazi Hussain Ahmed of the Jamaat-i-Islami.
Published09 Feb, 201211:40pm
THE US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, has disclosed that Dr Shakil Afridi who ran an anti-polio campaign in Abbottabad succeeded in obtaining DNA samples that led to the discovery of Osama bin Laden and his subsequent death at the hands of US Special Fo
Published02 Feb, 201210:02pm
SOME years ago, a small passenger aircraft in the US crashed because its pilot and engineer started concentrating on neutralising the trimmer that had not settled, although it was not dangerous.
Published27 Jan, 201212:10am
PAKISTAN is witnessing a test of wills between its civil and military elite. It is a play of many parts and a thriller in its own right.
Published20 Jan, 201212:05am
THE world is on the cusp of far-reaching changes that will have a significant impact on the security situation in this region.
Published12 Jan, 201208:03pm
THE next phase that the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are entering is likely to usher in another deadly period of counter-terrorism operations and intense manoeuvring between the US, Russia, China and Iran.
Published05 Jan, 201207:39pm
