Munir Akram
THE invitation to Nawaz Sharif and other Saarc leaders from Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi to attend his...
Published 25 May, 2014 07:45am
A NUCLEAR South Asia became a more dangerous place when the Bush administration ‘de-hyphenated’ policy towards...
Updated 12 May, 2014 12:45pm
DEMOCRACY is a process for governance by popular consent and the peaceful transfer of power. Periodic elections are...
Published 27 Apr, 2014 06:27am
ALTHOUGH the world attention is focused today on a new ‘Cold War’ in Europe, it is in Asia that the prospects of...
Published 13 Apr, 2014 08:51am
AT present, the pervasive characteristic of Pakistan’s security policies — regarding the TTP, Afghanistan and...
Updated 31 Mar, 2014 12:47pm
THE most renowned culinary offering named for Ukraine’s fair capital is probably not being consumed extensively in...
Published 16 Mar, 2014 07:40am
EUROPE and the United States have successfully encouraged a revolt against Viktor Yanukovych, the inept and corrupt,...
Published 02 Mar, 2014 07:19am
IN February 2002, 2,000 Muslim men, women and children were killed by Hindu mobs in India’s Gujrat state. A ...
Published 16 Feb, 2014 08:15am
IN a New York Times report of Jan 27, US officials have admitted what some Pakistanis have long asserted: that the...
Published 02 Feb, 2014 08:06am
MUCH of the Muslim world — from the Maghreb to the Indonesian archipelago — is in the throes of violent change....
Published 19 Jan, 2014 07:57am
DURING the six months of the current government, there have been few changes on major national issues.
Given the...
Published 05 Jan, 2014 07:33am
WHILE all politics is local, specific issues and events are also affected by the push and pull of global power...
Published 22 Dec, 2013 08:08am
THE ‘interim’ agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme reached in Geneva two weeks ago was a seminal event in...
Published 08 Dec, 2013 08:22am
AT independence in 1947, Pakistan was a poor country. But it was richer than China, India and many other currently...
Published 24 Nov, 2013 07:50am
WHEN a US drone killed Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, Pakistan’s interior minister proclaimed it had killed ...
Published 10 Nov, 2013 07:58am
KILLER drones pose a moral and policy dilemma for the US and Pakistan. The US has found drones an easy and low-cost...
Published 27 Oct, 2013 07:10am
WHEN Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assumed his third term in office, he proposed unconditional talks to India; sought ...
Published 13 Oct, 2013 08:18am
THE election of Iran’s ‘moderate’ President Hassan Rouhani was a pleasant surprise for the West. His ‘charm...
Published 29 Sep, 2013 07:58am
US PRESIDENT Obama’s threat to launch punitive air strikes against Syria unilaterally, without even a token...
Published 15 Sep, 2013 08:30am
THE US, together with a ‘coalition of the willing’, appears on the verge of launching air strikes against the...
Published 01 Sep, 2013 07:41am
