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In the view of Syrians, the country’s president, Bashar al Assad, and his ally, Iran, have more support than do the forces arrayed against him, according to a public opinion poll taken last summer by a research firm that is working with the US and British governments. The poll’s findings …

By Shamshad Ahmad Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Marco Polo diplomacy and Washington’s full-throttle support all around, India’s application for membership in the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has hit a dead end at the NSG’s latest annual plenary meeting in Seoul. While not on the group’s agenda, some of …

Liaquatabad. It sounds so familiar. After hearing this name I felt a nostalgic pain. Why so familiar? Something stabbed my bosom. How can I forget that night? Liaqat Bagh, 27 December 2007; Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is murdered. Same words with a different name appeared on the same news channel. I …

[/tie_full_img] Imtiaz Alam [/tie_full_img] A crucial meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 23, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tashkent, holds the key to India and Pakistan’s entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This meeting coincides with the …

Maryam Khan While we go around parading in our new designer lawn outfits, sipping lemonade in our air conditioned rooms and planning what next restaurant to eat at or where the next exhibition is in a country diseased with poverty, there is a child out there who died of a …

[/tie_full_img] Nasim Zehra [/tie_full_img] The crisis at the Torkham border, which tragically turned bloody, has now settled down. More importantly, a comprehensive, though little known, attempt at constructing a bilateral architecture of engagement involving Pakistani and Afghan stakeholders from the security sector is back on track. Wiser by the crisis …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] Pakistan’s ideology was grounded in the intense feelings of injustices amongst the Muslim minority in undivided India. Majority of Muslims in pre-Partition India wanted to protect their Muslim identity, and political and economic rights. These feelings became the foundation of the two-nation theory. While leaders of the Indian …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] In Pakistan, anger has greeted the killing of Afghan Taliban head, Mullah Mansour, by an American drone on Pakistani territory. When senior US officials visited army chief Gen Raheel Sharif at the Rawalpindi GHQ, he expressed strong displeasure at the violation of Pakistan’s air space and demanded that …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] EVEN as the initial news flashes emerged about a gunman going on a rampage in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, one was compelled to wonder how long it would be before someone expressed the view that matters would not have come to such a pass had the …