Can Pakistan sustain its Democracy?
Pakistan is clearly struggling to make democracy a sustainable form of government. In the 64 years of its existence, it has only succeeded 50% of the time and that too as a democracy that keeps looking...
View ArticlePetit, not grand geste on India-Pakistan
Pakistan’s President, Asif Zardari, will be in India on 8th April. It was to have been a private visit to the shrine at Ajmer Sharif. Naturally Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited him to Delhi for a...
View ArticleNATO-Pakistan: Frigid in Chicago
The last-minute invitation to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to attend the NATO summit in Chicago was meant to signal a slow repair in U.S.-Pakistan relations. Instead, the breach has only...
View ArticlePakistan: Supreme Court vs. Democracy
Pakistan’s institutions are increasingly being diminished in a series of bruising turf battles. In the latest episode of a long-running serial, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has asked the new Prime...
View ArticleImran Khan’s India equation
In urban living rooms and media houses from Karachi to New Delhi, Imran Khan’s moniker “Taliban Khan”’ is picking up fast, and with good reason – Khan’s consistent pandering to hardliners can no...
View ArticlePakistan elections: Tweedledum & Tweedledee
Thank God I am many things but not a political pundit. That species grows on trees and bushes in present-day Pakistan. Another election is on its way – and as some cynics put it, and so is more...
View ArticleWhat the Abbottabad report reveals
Al Jazeera TV’s leak on July 8 of a classified report on the U.S. military raid in Abbottabad, which killed Osama bin Laden, has triggered a controversy in Pakistan. The report holds former President...
View ArticlePakistani tycoon targets India banking
Pakistan’s wealthiest businessman is seeking to expand his banking group into India, in a further sign of a thaw in the often troubled relations between the neighbouring nuclear-armed south Asian...
View ArticleNon-performing asset
Pakistan’s institutions are increasingly being diminished in a series of bruising turf battles. In the latest episode of a long-running serial, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has asked new Prime Minister...
View ArticleWhat the Abbottabad report didn’t reveal
Al Jazeera TV’s leak on July 8 of a classified report on the US military raid in Abbottabad, which killed Osama bin Laden, has triggered a controversy in Pakistan. The report holds former President...
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