Pakistan fires Indus Commissioner
Pakistan has removed its Indus Commissioner as right-wing Pakistani newspapers had been baying for his blood since the World Bank gave a go ahead...
Compulsive disengagement
With domestic political compulsions leaving India and Pakistan unable to come to any agreement on less contentious issues like Sir Creek and Siachen, there...
Core issue not core of talks
Three wars and 60 years gone by but Indian and Pakistan have focused attention on solving Kashmir only twice despite a long history of...
Fast Forwarded
The Indo-Pak composite dialogue facing hiccups since its 26/11 pause, is seeing a sudden boost with talks at three levels lined up in Islamabad....
Tulbul Revived?
After the failure of the last round of bilateral talks between India and Pakistan over the controversial Tulbul Navigation Lock, New Delhi has indicated...
Out of bounds
Canadian High Commission’s refusal to issue visas to some, serving and retired, personnel of the Indian security grid on the grounds of human rights...
Reducing trust deficit
India and Pakistan foreign secretaries’ meet at Islamabad has not made much headway though the two have prepared the ground and agenda for the...
Exploring deadlock
The India Pakistan dialogue seems to have broken before it was restarted, but Indian side suggests its agenda was exploratory and the results were...
Siachen: Can This Ice Melt?
After Siachen Glacier devoured more than 130 men in a single avalanche early this month, Islamabad is again seeking a way out of the...
‘We want royalty on our resources’
More than a year later in August 2006, Nawab Bugti was killed in a military operation in a cave. His killing has not helped...
Consensus on Slow and Steady
India-Pakistan Foreign Secretary talks ended on a quiet note in New Delhi perhaps signaling a willingness to make bilateral engagement uninterruptible and go slow...
Ignoring ground issues
As politicians rhetorically raise terrorism and security threat issues in parliament elections, Iftikhar Gilani reports the disconnect between the slogans and issues on ground....
Nominal democracy
Skipping burning corruption issues in the country, the Congress president talked Kashmir at the AICC session this week. Iftikhar Gilani reports. Congress President Sonia...
UPA’s Kashmir tangle
Iftikhar GilaniAs the exit polls and an internal survey of Congress predicted a close shave with rival National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on May 13,...
Reddened by injustice
For decades Indian strategists have underestimated the potential of the Maoists, while the Red Corridor kept growing. Recent Maoist onslaughts, are making the strategists...
