I’m walkin’ down the line My feet’ll be a-flyin’ To tell you about my troubled mind. (Bob Dylan, 1963) IT…
AT the weekend, media reports based on the interrogation of apparently the only terrorist to be captured alive in Mumbai, named as…
SOME 45 years ago, a silver-tongued American preacher from the Deep South who had been propelled to national prominence after leading an…
TWO weeks hence, the world will be waiting with the proverbial bated breath for the result of the US presidential election. At…
UNTIL as recently as a year ago, the conflict in Iraq was being portrayed by the primary aggressor as a well-intentioned intervention…
NEARLY three decades ago, when General Zia-ul-Haq sought to dramatize the situation on the border with Afghanistan, he dragged Zbigniew Brzezinski to…
THE presidential race in the United States kicked off such a long time ago that for months on end it seemed interminable.…
“MEET Mr Sonia Gandhi.” That, reportedly, was how Sherry Rehman introduced visitors to Asif Ali Zardari back in February, suggesting that he…
IT would have been possible to contemplate with greater equanimity the prospect of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf’s impeachment had it been possible…
OUT there on the international stage, the past ten days must have proved rather trying for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.…
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