By: Tanveer Mir Qazi Nisar Ahmad was born in 1952 and completed his early education in Nusrat ul Islam in Islamabad. In 1968 he topped the class 10th board exams...

By: Liz Mathew Once again, despite having the odds stacked against it, the BJP made a political move to beat its three-year coalition partner. The PDP, whose leadership has been...

He was a man of great discipline and clear sight when it came to the interests of Kashmiris By: Radha Kumar  The tragic and shocking assassination of Shujaat Bukhari came...

By: Meghnad Desai At the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington looked at his army and said, “I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy...

By: M.K. Narayanan Events in Thoothukudi on May 22 and 23 have helped turn the spotlight on the changing nature of violence, and the inadequacy of existing rules and procedures...

By: Syed Maajid Rashid Andrabi  While we are on the brink of losing our young generations to the violence and bloodshed, it is very much imperative to look at the...

By: Rakesh Sood “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t,” wrote Mark Twain. Nothing proves it better than the...

By: M Saeed Khalid It was four years ago that Narendra Modi rose to power on the bandwagon of Hindutva and populist slogans like ‘development for all’. While the BJP...

By: Stanly Johny As the new Cold War gets hotter, Russia now faces a big dilemma in West Asia of defending its allies. When President Vladimir Putin decided to send...

C.Raja Mohan This year’s Ramzan is raising hopes for peace, if only temporary, in the Subcontinent’s two intractable conflicts in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Unexpected cessation of military operations, initiated unilaterally...