Balochistan and Pakistan: myths about accession and secession

To prevent the gullible Baloch youth and their compatriots in other provinces from blindly following…

Balochistan – the bogey of Baloch in angst

For a very long time, the Establishment (civil and military and mostly non-Baloch) has looked…

Hindu Nationalism, the BJP, Bollywood and Bombay Dons

The Hindutva has disrupted India’s secular fabric, impacting negatively on the trajectory of India's international…

Balochistan – psychosis of despair?

I was interacting with master's level interns in an Islamabad think tank, and shockingly realised…

Offensive realism and contemporary power politics

Perpetual Peace' is a mirage so to say, as any budding power, unchecked by the…

Katcha’s Costly Casualties

The Katcha areas of Sindh and Punjab have seen countless lives laid down by our…

Post-Hasina Bangladesh: Is Pakistan Up To The Task?

It took more than 560 innocent lives for the “Student Revolution” in Bangladesh to succeed.…

War in Ukraine – the Kursk incursion

Last year, we were in a seminar with a European country/military discussing the regional security…

Lords of the Rose – Book Review

Lords of the Rose - An Afghan Saga by Brigadier (retd) Sultan Mahmud, or 'Salty'…

Bangladesh at the cusp of revolution?

It was on July 1 when students from the Dhaka University, and later other universities…