THE posthumous award given five decades later to Francis Gary Powers by the American Air Force last month brings to mind not only the halcyon days for Pakistan in foreign relations; it serves to highlight
Published04 Jul, 201210:00pm
WHILE we, as students of European history, are aware of the harsh conditions imposed on Germany by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, few have any idea about what the victors did to Germany after the Second World War.
Published04 Jun, 201212:10am
"Murtaza was alive to me: an even-tempered person bursting with energy and full of ideas relevant to issues of the day and Pakistani journalism."
Published19 Apr, 201210:04pm
FOR the first time in Pakistan’s history, the national consensus on the broad outlines of foreign policy is in danger of being shattered.
Published14 Apr, 201209:00pm
I HAVE ‘normal’ sectarian prejudices and tell Shia jokes to friends and colleagues. Also, I do occasionally listen to firebrand Shia ulema, who like their Sunni counterparts keep their audience spellbound, block traffic
Published14 Mar, 201208:30pm
THERE is something in Afghanistan’s colourless, awe-inspiring topography that resists foreign ideas and manages to impart to its people, especially soldiers and diplomats, an uncanny wisdom rooted in Afghan soil.
Published15 Feb, 201211:50pm
Minhaj Barna’s life-long leadership of trade unionism in Pakistan’s newspaper industry overshadowed some other aspects of his versatile personality and made him appear a uni-dimensional personality he was
Published14 Jan, 201206:49am
THE death of Pir Pagara, one of the icons of Pakistan`s politics, brings to an end an eventful, often controversial political career characterised by the absence of a coherent philosophy whose roots perhaps lay
Published10 Jan, 201211:50pm
A HORRIFYING trend is developing in that part of the world where it should not: wishes are passed off as analysis. Recently, an American think tank came up with the finding that a conflict with Pakistan was
Published24 Dec, 201109:30pm
EVEN confirmed democracies recognise wars as a phenomenon that upsets the schedule of events. There was no election in Britain for 10 long years (1935-45)
Published03 Dec, 201109:34pm
ASPECTS of what appears to be Turkey’s high-profile foreign policy have come under sharp criticism from the opposition, and highlight the dangers inherent in the active and extended regional
Published12 Nov, 201109:07pm