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Don’t mention it – Mahir Ali
AMID the intensifying sabre-rattling over Taiwan, the doyen of American whistleblowers, Daniel Ellsberg, deemed it important to publicise his nation’s nuclear war gaming during...
Pakistan’s Afghan predicament By Zahid Hussain
The writer is the author of No-Win War — The Paradox of US-Pakistan Relations in Afghanistan’s Shadow.
WITH the American forces racing to the exit,...
Waging the data war – Fahd Husain
WHEN data starts to drive discussion, politics becomes even messier than usual. In Pakistan today, numbers, figures, graphs and charts are speaking louder than...
Conducting inquiries By A.G. Noorani
INQUIRIES lie at the very heart of the democratic process. They ensure accountability of the state to the legislature and to the people who...
The PML-N’s change of tack By Zahid Hussain
THE thunder has gone with the change in narrative. It’s no more the military leadership that is the main nemesis. There’s no more talk...
Palestinians’ right to live By Zahid Hussain
THIS is not the first time the people in Gaza have suffered Israeli brutality that has caused death and devastation. Yet the kind of...
Killing field- Mahir Ali
WELL before he plucked up the courage to timorously call for a ceasefire, Joe Biden has been echoing the mantra recited by a...
Blaming envoys for the mess By Zahid Hussain
GOVERNANCE has never been the Imran Khan administration’s forte but his government’s incompetence in running foreign affairs is truly calamitous. The prime minister’s perception...
Israeli flashpoint – Mahir Ali
RESISTANCE to the latest bout of attempted ethnic cleansing in the Old City has fed into spiralling violence in Jerusalem in the days leading...
So far so good? – Mahir Ali
IT is somewhat disconcerting to find myself almost in agreement with US Senator Lindsey Graham, a particularly odious representative of the Republican leadership...