The major malady that afflicts the relations between Washington and Islamabad is the trust deficit, which was also observed by Clinton.

The state demands conformity and thus keeps asking people to check their behaviour against what the ideology seeks from them. Every effort...

Obama’s very first charm offensive, i.e. the commitment to close down the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, has come a cropper...

Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a trip to Pakistan amidst great fanfare but had nothing new to say.

The objective is to assess “the state of press freedom in the world. It reflects the degree of freedom that journalists and news organisations enjoy in each country, and the efforts made by the authorities to respect and ensure respect for this

For Mr Zardari to serve as a director in the Park Lane Estates Pvt. Limited concurrently with his duties as president is clearly contrary to his constitutional responsibilities as president. Senior lawyer Senator S.M. Zafar said in a TV talk show on

She experienced this firsthand. A tribesman from Fata, where fighting rages against the Pakistani Taliban and where American drones kill hundreds of women and children, said to her point blank, "Your presence in the region is not good for peace."

A handful of international NGOs, which dominate the global debate, have managed to very deftly shift the entire development discourse to climate change. The United Nations (not only UNEP, but all its other arms), the bilateral donor agencies like

On the part of Washington, the trust deficit is on two counts: One, the suspicion that the security establishment of Pakistan is not going all-out in tracking down Al Qaeda leadership; two, the apprehension that Pakistan’s nuclear material may fall

That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,

It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading western accounts of the rise of the global economy.

Just when the cocky tribunes of the once truly ‘people’s’ party, but lately hijacked by Zardari, were literally dancing in the air, convinced that they had the numbers in the parliament to ram the ignoble NRO down the throats of a largely moribund

Life and liberty are in danger and people are fearful. The wave of terrorists may be in response to the military operation in South Waziristan but, as the reports indicate, the local militant groups are directly involved and they have sleeper cells

The attack on the Islamic University in Islamabad demonstrates that the terrorists have the will to attack any target. No place is sacrosanct. This is no longer a campaign waged by a hardcore group of militants against the state apparatus, the

The British journalist, Robert Fisk, recently wrote enthusiastically about the demonstrations in Tehran, following the Iranian presidential elections: “the colourful revolutions have always been initiated during an election ….”(Dawn, June 22, 2009).