SOME eight years ago, when Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush was asked to name the military officer behind Pakistan’s recent coup…
THE pathetic sight of a lame duck hopping across the Middle Eastern landscape, looking for love in a hostile terrain and studiously…
Tujh ko kitnon ka lahoo chahiye ae arz-e-watan Jo tiray aarz-e-berang ko gulnaar karein Kitni aahon se kaleja tira thanda hoga Kitne…
WHEN she arrived in Khartoum four months ago, Gillian Gibbons couldn’t possibly have had any inkling that she’d be headed back to…
NO one should be under any illusion about the implications of Australia‘s change of government: sharp deviations from the country’s political or…
IT might have been possible, in different circumstances, to feel sorry for John Negroponte. The US deputy secretary of state’s weekend mission…
TWO days after General Pervez Musharraf promulgated the emergency, rumours of a coup were rife across Pakistan. At least one observer saw…
DAWN, Pakistan — THE winter of our discontent sprouted legs last Saturday. It may have a long way to run. Sooner or…
After months of feverish speculation, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, in his capacity as chief of the army staff, carried out what appeared,…
ONE can hardly disagree with Benazir Bhutto when she argues that militant Islamists must not be allowed to determine the political agenda…
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