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The writer is a former High Commissioner to Pakistan Less
January 4, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
For many in Pakistan, 2025 marked the end of a long period of its strategic isolation. The reasons are evident: an unexpected turnaround in US-Pakistan relations in the early months of the Trump presidency; aâŠ
January 4, 2026, 5:00 AM IST
April 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Photo caption: Given the atrocity, a serious escalation is only to be expected but its aims should be clear A major terrorist attack, a vast human tragedy, nationwide anger and distress, and an India-Pakistan crisisâŠThisâŠ
April 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
July 21, 2024, 5:25 AM IST
The string of terrorist attacks in J&K merits a widening of the frame to look at what is happening in Pakistan. The announcement that a ban on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and trying Imran KhanâŠ
July 21, 2024, 5:25 AM IST
February 4, 2024, 3:00 AM IST
DĂ©jĂ vu is the predominant sense that hangs over the forthcoming general election in Pakistan on Feb 8. A principal protagonist, former PM Imran Khan, is in jail, barred from contesting. He has been sentencedâŠ
February 4, 2024, 3:00 AM IST
May 14, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
As Pakistanâs multi-pronged political crisis matured over the past year, the issue always was when something would give. We cannot say whether the drama of Imran Khanâs arrest, the civic unrest and violence that followedâŠ
May 14, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
January 22, 2023, 11:17 AM IST
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharifâs statement in a recent interview about Pakistan wanting better relations with India and its having learnt lessons from past conflicts has attracted a fair bit of attention. Perhaps this isâŠ
January 22, 2023, 11:17 AM IST
April 8, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
With the Pakistan Supreme Court declaring the April 3 dissolution of the national assembly illegal and ordering voting on the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan on April 9, the next act in the countryâs politicalâŠ
April 8, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
August 20, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
As India closed its mission in Kabul and evacuated personnel, a strong sense that we have embarked on another cycle of repetitive events is inescapable. That we have faced a setback is obvious. Yet itâŠ
August 20, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
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