BRICS And Walls
Christophe Jaffrelot | With the benefit of hindsight, one can learn several lessons from the BRICS summit in Goa. Before this event, close observers of India’s...
Questions Over Intended Destination of Houthi Missile Attack
Editorial | Oct 31, 2016 THE Saudi-Houthi conflict took a dangerous turn as reports emerged on Friday that the Yemeni rebel group had fired a...
Analysing The Trade Relationship Between Pakistan And India
Aadil Nakhoda | Oct 31, 2016 The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) consists of eight South Asian nations, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,...
In Delhi, Alleged Cases Of Poop Falling From Planes. National Green Tribunal Investigates
Imagine human excreta falling on you from airplanes flying above! A former senior armyman has moved the National Green Tribunal alleging dumping of human...
Princess Diana interview among most watched TV programmes of the last 80 years
Princess Diana's Panorama interview was most watched factual programme on TV but could not beat Only Fools and Horses from the top spot, new...
Turkey Detains Editor, Staff Of Leading Opposition Paper
“An accelerated descent into dictatorship” was how one journalist summed up the Oct. 31 raid on Cumhuriyet, one of a handful of surviving opposition outlets, which saw...
‘Afghan Girl’ in 1985 National Geographic Photo Is Arrested in Pakistan
An Afghan woman whose photograph as a young refugee with piercing green eyes was published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, becoming...
Pakistan’s Honor-Killing Law Isn’t Enough
Bina Shah | Oct 28, 2016 KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan today, it’s a sad reality that regressive societal attitudes toward women label us as...
The Dead Begin To Speak Up In India
Arundhati Roy | Oct 28, 2016 Kashmir is in the process of being isolated, cut off from the outside world by two concentric rings of...
Freedom of the Press
Hassan Niazi | Oct 26, 2016 On October 11, the Government of Pakistan took another step to undermine free speech. By placing one of the...
Kashmir: Seeking Solutions; Investing In Peace
Rustam Shah Mohmand | Oct 26, 2016 The events unfolding in the wake of the killing of Burhan Wani, a Kasmiri freedom fighter about three...
Heaven Can Wait – By Owen Bennett-Jones
OWEN BENNETT-JONES | Oct 26, 2016 JUST two years ago, it was said the jihadis could conquer Baghdad. Today they are on the run. When...