A teacher once gave a picture of an elephant to members of various nationalities and asked them to write an essay about the picture. The American wrote an essay stating that how elephant could be used to make money. The British composed one on the role of elephant in the colonial rule. The Indian transcribed… Read More Kashmir Deserves Better: Talk to the Kashmiris
Pakistan claims that 52 of its citizens were killed in 1300 Indian violations of the Line of Control (LoC) in 2017. The latter claims that Pakistan violated the LoC 780 times during the same period. We hear of civilians killed on our side of the border but tend to forget that the retaliatory fire often… Read More Kashmir Solution: Demilitarizing Kashmir
Privately, many in the government lament that they are helpless in handling Indo-Pak relations as it is exclusively a domain dominated by the military. The military is an important player in Pakistan’s politics and General Raheel Sharif is currently the most popular Pakistani but the military will not carry out a coup d’etat if the… Read More Indo-Pak Relations: Where is the Civilian Leadership?
Cyril Almeida, a Pakistani of Goan origin, wrote an interesting story which was carried by the cautious Dawn as its lead story on October 6, 2016. A spokesman for Prime Minister Office the same day denied the story “regarding `purported deliberations’ of a meeting held on security issues. The spokesman termed contents of the story… Read More Cyril Almeida: Pakistan’s Snowden?
This is the excerpt for a placeholder post.… Read More Imran Khan Boycotting the Parliament
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