By: Ahmed Rashid For the first time ever, the Taliban has announced a three-day ceasefire with the Afghan government over the Eid holiday period. They have ordered their forces to...

By: Shad Moarif IN a recent Guardian report, Zara, a 29-year-old Pakistani fashion buyer in London, confesses to following rigorous skincare routines because “I would be pitted against my darker-skinned...

By: ARSHAD KHAN Kashmir is a complex political conflict which has historically played with the credibility and integrity of both politicians as well as political parties. Nearly all stakeholders of...

By: Michael Pembroke Contrary to popular perception, the core issue to be resolved at the June 12 summit - and any subsequent meetings - between US President Donald Trump and...

By: Suhasini Haidar At his speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last week, billed as a major foreign policy statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of India and the...

By: Vharat Karnad The worst fears about the Defence Planning Committee (DPC) being yet another bureaucratic contrivance rather than an instrument for centralizing national security and defence decision-making were realized...

By: Suhasini Haidar A former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing and former special director of the Intelligence Bureau, A.S. Dulat is in the eye of the storm over...

By: Sharat Sabharwal The Kashmir valley has been on a precipice, with frequent encounters resulting in the killing of militants by security forces, accompanied by a steady flow to militancy...

By: Latha Jishnu IT would be far-fetched, perhaps unabashedly romantic, to think that the aura of the legendary musician Abdul Karim Khan had something to do with bringing Kairana, his...

By: Mukul Kesavan The election of Tabassum Hasan, the joint Opposition candidate who defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party's Mriganka Singh in the Kairana by-election for the Lok Sabha, is significant...