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In a recent series of blogposts, Javed Chaudhry, a television anchor, has made several “revelations” after a long meeting, per...
In a January 4 statement, the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples...
The first step towards dealing with a threat is to appreciate that it exists. The next step is to profile...
As a war rages on the eastern periphery of Europe, killing thousands and displacing millions; as violence racks many other...
The Russo-Ukraine War has entered its ninth month. Termed a “special military operation” by the Kremlin, the war was supposed...
In the Byzantium behind-the-scenes politics. any outrage against probity, law and norms seems possible There’s nary a discussion in this...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guardians?) — Juvenal “The civil-military challenge is to reconcile a military strong enough to...
It’s superfluous to detail the political mess in which the country finds itself. The attack on former prime minister Imran...
In October 1761, the suicide of Marc-Antoine, a young man, became a cause célèbre in France. Even Voltaire, France’s foremost...
The war in Ukraine is poised to enter another phase. But let’s first recap the ground situation. Sergei Surovikin, a...
The Russo-Ukraine war is now in its eighth month. Despite initial territorial losses in the northeast, east and south, the...
Conversations in this country often end with the desire for a revolution. As in, “This country needs a revolution; that’s...
On Wednesday evening, I sent a one-line message to an Italian friend. “Bro, what do you think of [Giorgio] Meloni’s...
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which began on September 6, has inflicted a significant operational blow on the Russian military, recapturing nearly all...
Human craving for development is insatiable. As Sapiens explores new vistas, conquers new worlds, achieves new breakthroughs in science, accumulates...
Humans have the unique ability, as also the desire, to generate surplus. Human existence is not just marked by a...
In Book VII of Plato’s Republic, Socrates talks about the allegory of the cave in his dialogue with Glaucon. The...
It was September 2011. I was headed to Dulles for the flight back to Pakistan. Sharing the cab ride with...
We are in a catch-22. And then some. Let’s first check the dictionary meaning of the term. Merriam-Webster defines a...
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, long in hiding, was assassinated by a targeted drone strike in Kabul on the morning of...
When King Minos of Crete decided to imprison the Minotaur — a creature with a human body and a bull’s...
Searching online for t-shirts, I came across one with a profile sketch of Imran Khan and the words “Absolutely Not”....
The world is poised for more conflict. There are internal wars; there’s an ongoing war in Ukraine and the peer...
When Antaeus, son of the sea god Poseidon and the Earth goddess Gaia, challenged Heracles to a wrestling match, Heracles...
During the Cold War, Elbe, the river, became the line that separated the United States-led alliance from the Soviet Union...
Since his ouster from power through a no-confidence vote, former prime minister Imran Khan has again taken to agitational politics,...
It began with the BJP national spokeswoman Nupur Sharma. In a television debate, Sharma made derogatory comments about the Prophet...
Speaking virtually at the World Economic Forum at Davos on May 23, former US Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger,...
