Obama’s oratory: Deeds will have to follow words
Tarique A Bhat
Opening with the greetings of “Shukran” and “As-salaam-alaikum,” his speech was filled with appreciation for Muslim
Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country...
‘Some Historians Believe That Afghanistan Conflict Is The Outcome of India and Pakistan Kashmir...
Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had...
A Red Hearing?
There were some highly uncomfortable questions that American Congressmen asked its own officials on Kashmir. The hearing by a Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs,...
The ‘Peacenik’
Post-1996, Mufti Sayeed rallied behind Indo-Pak relations and eventually created a political space for unionists in militancy-hit Kashmir. Though coming at the fag end...
Gulmarg To Geneva
With the rival armies engaged in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation on Kashmir borders, Indian and Pakistani diplomats are busy fighting the ‘war by...
Secret Dialogue?
It would be interesting to see how the back-channel engagement between India and Pakistan evolves in the weeks and months to come and whether...
Talk Is Not Walking
There hasn’t been any statement from Delhi and Islamabad in the recent past that indicates some form of an engagement is ongoing between the...
Zaiba’s Homecoming
A Pakistani travel reporter Danial Shah and an Indian photographer Mithila Jariwala teamed up to report Zaiba’s homecoming to Turtuk after nearly half a...
Talk Walks, Finally
As Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue emerges from the ruins of Composite Dialogue between Delhi and Islamabad, Masood Hussain analyses the surprising resumption of engagement and...
Why Imran Khan Skipped Taking Up Forced Cremation of Sri Lankan Muslims?
SRINAGAR: Visiting at a time when Sri Lanka is facing the music for cremating the Muslim victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistan Prime Minister...
Karakoram’s Newerland
Islamabad’s fresh dose of autonomy to the erstwhile Northern Areas have created a lot of heat and dust. R S Gull profiles the region’s history...
Leaking Diplomacy
That it is a huge embarrassment for the State Department is an old story. The US cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, apart...
The Diplomatic Secret
An American diplomat whom India calls the mother of Hurriyat Conference, was recently in the middle of an espionage drama. But in 1991, this...
Dragon diplomacy
As India and Pakistan keep fighting their hot and cold wars – physical and diplomatic – over Kashmir, China is often considered the silent...
