I recall the collective gasp of dismay that ricocheted around Islamabad in early February 2004 when A.Q. Khan appeared on television, confessing that he had acted against Pakistan’s interests in...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgist who became known to western intelligence services as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and a worldwide dealer in weapons technology, died on Sunday at a hos...

In the year 2009, the present prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, who was a vociferous critic of the Afghanistan policy of the then government of Pakistan, went to the United States of America to ...

Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s first military dictator, was once asked by a close associate how he made the error in judgement of approving ‘Operation Gibraltar’ that led to the 1965 war with...

Coincidentally, I wrote in these pages last month on the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the Agra summit. The February 25 joint announcement of the Indian and Pakistan militaries on an agreement to en...

Hell fire can begin to rain on restive borders unexpectedly. But ceasefires — always welcomed by citizens manning or living along heated borders — can be as sudden. The recent joint announ...

The 20th anniversary of the Agra summit, when General Pervez Musharraf was invited to India, will fall this coming July. As is well known, it was Musharraf’s outspoken comments early during the ...

A gang rape took place earlier this month on the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway. A woman was driving to Gujranwala from Lahore around 1 am when her car’s fuel ran out. She called the Motorway helpline ...

A top court here on Monday quashed Pervez Musharraf’s death sentence and termed as “unconstitutional” the formation of a special tribunal that tried him for high treason.The Islamabad special co...

Even before there was any ominous sign that the war-torn anxieties were tranquillising, Pakistan’s information minister, Fawad Chaudhry, was preparing to steal the limelight for his leader.As soon a...