By: Imtiaz Alam ‘Change’ is indeed here: Imran Khan is now the country’s prime minister, with a popular base and institutional support. There is no going back from what he...

By: Hamid Dabashi War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. He was using alternative facts. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking...

By: Jatin Desai In August 2017, US President Donald Trump announced his policy on South Asia. It emphasised primarily three countries: Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. It was expected that his...

By: Sankarshan Thakur Gharmeinshaadihaipaisenaihain... tillililli, tillililli!!! Can't remember who said that, the gharmeinshaadihai thing. Sounded like a terrible taunt at the time, still does when memory, that mostly unkindly thing,...

By: Marwan Kabalan Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after a meeting in Ankara, Turkey on April...

BY: Khaled Ahmed After becoming prime minister, Imran Khan received a goodwill message from the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani. It read like a routine gesture, but both Kabul and...

By: Bhaskar Dutta The International Monetary Fund releases its World Economic Outlook twice every year. As its name suggests, the document contains the organization's forecast about rates of growth of...

By: GUL BUKHARI Princeton professor Atif R. Mian has proved to be too hot for Pakistan’s Imran Khan government to handle. Days after Mian was appointed a member of Pakistan’s...

By: GAUHAR RAZA I was late, and the rain that had started falling late in the night continued through the morning. I was worried about the camps at Ramlila Maidan,...

By:  SHEIKH MAQBOOL Environment issues are undoubtedly the biggest issues staring at the face humankind at this juncture. Not only in India but across the globe environmental issues are causing serious...