Working as the sole Pakistani on a German newspaper’s foreign editorial desk provides a journalist rare insight into why her country rarely gets a fair shake in the western media.
Is the US scapegoating Pakistan for its failures in Afghanistan, or is there any justification for the serious allegations it has levelled against the ISI?
Muammar Gaddafi was many things to many people: madman, genius, dictator, leader, murderer, martyr. It depends who you talk to. Will the future for Libyans be brighter without him?
In the next few days and weeks, who will be in control? Who will maintain law and order? Remember Baghdad and Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein? Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban?
Unlike usual revolutionary movements, HuT aims to bring change through the military because it is well aware that the military is the strongest institution in Pakistan.
It’s time to head out of the state of denial about the effectiveness of our defence doctrine and recalibrate our policies to take on the nation’s challenges in a more pragmatic and dispassionate way.
Obama’s plans of a phased drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan are unlikely to usher in a period of peace and stability in the country or the region. In fact, negotiations between US and Afghan officials about permanent US military bases seem to indicate otherwise.