Picking up threads
As India and Pakistan foreign secretaries hope to pick up the threads in Thimpu, officials in Delhi are skeptic of any major outcome. Retrieving...
Lessons from Sudan
Though Kashmir and Sudan are thousands of miles apart, the developments in North African country have found resonance in South Asia. Iftikhar Gilani reports. Voters...
Ready to smoke peace pipe
Taliban have sent a 5-point wish-list to US forces in Afghanistan, indicating their preparedness to dump al-Qaida. Iftikhar Gilani reports from Dubai.
After stoking violence...
Dragon-stung
Pakistan’s trusted friend, China is seen as an irritant in India, with its latest moves upsetting New Delhi. Iftikhar Gilani reports.When US President Barack...
A fight for democracy
Though a world apart from each other, there are quite a few resemblances between Korea and Kashmir other than a militarized line dividing the...
Raising a voice
Malalai Joya, 30, was elected to the Afghan Parliament from Pashtun dominated Farah province. In May 2007, she was suspended from the parliament on...
News Makers
PROMOTED: Income Tax department has promoted its three J&K officers to Chief Commissioner rank. These include B L Razdan (now DG IT Investigation Chandigarh),...
Looking to change and adopt
AHMAD RIYAZ
While Shopian murders may have severely tested the credibility of his government, Chief Minister Omer Abdullah’s own political image has emerged by and...
Urban Gypsy
Iftikhar GilaniFrustrated with directions and lost at a busy junction in Bangkok, a Thai tourism kiosk on the pavement came to my rescue. After...
Afghanistan’s veiled casualty
Sahara TV correspondent Bilal Bhat covered the recent general elections in Afghanistan. Back home, he shares his views about the war torn nation’s silent...
Traveling on a Muslim name
Shahrukh Khan’s detention at a US airport may have raised many eyebrows in India, but the incident is not one off. It is a...
Unrest in China’s Muslim Xinjiang
China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang to 184, the state Xinhua news agency reported...
Newsmakers
CDROPPED: Prof Saif ud Din Soz was dropped as a minister by UPA government led by Dr Manmohan Singh. He will be asked to...
Ghosts from Kashmir
Eric Margolis
The U.S. strategic think-tank, Rand Corp, estimated a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would initially kill two million, wound 100 million, and...
