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American military officials are telling their Pakistani counterparts they want to save the Pakistani-American relationship. The way to do this, they say, is to ‘forgive and forget’ the

The most remarkable aspect of the Egyptian regime is that it has managed peace with Israel and relations with the United States for a quarter of a century

Scenes of ordinary people embracing soldiers and taking out their wrath on everything representing failed politicians happened for the second time in a few weeks. An uprising led

Salmaan Taseer was a good Pakistani, a self-made businessman who did not use his politics to create illegal wealth or stash it abroad like most other politicians. He

There is a link between Pakistan’s future and the award-winning Emirates airline. Let me explain. Today Pakistan is like PIA, talented but bankrupt, uncreative and miserable. Unless we find

We in Pakistan share the grief of the 166 innocent people killed in the 2008 attacks but do not share the cynicism of the Indian government and the

Mr Richard Armitage might have threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age. We dodged the threat by accepting to be bombed in installments over eight years

The transfer of power in Beijing to China’s fifth-generation leadership is being closely watched in world capitals, but nowhere more than in Islamabad. China is an anchor of

I don't need to be a foreign minister to know two things. One, if I want to tell Iran it doesn't need nukes, I can do so directly

There is a very simple question that every Pakistani government official needs to ask the Americans: If you fail to pacify the Pakhtuns in Afghanistan, is it Pakistan's

Despite the many hints and calls for a coup of some sort, the Pakistani military shouldn’t intervene now when the politicians are doing a great job of discrediting

There is strategic mileage to be drawn from the natural disaster in Pakistan. The country’s policymakers would be wise to consider several internal and external policy options because

Pakistan's relationship with the US remains rocky despite the recent reported assassination of Baitullah Mehsud. He was an anti-Pakistan terrorist and not an anti-US terrorist. He was a

A college chemistry professor is murdered in cold blood at his house’s doorstep in Quetta, the latest in a long list of educationists cowardly assassinated by terrorists claiming

Three things have never happened before. Afghanistan has conceded over the weekend that anti-Pakistan terrorists and separatists have safe havens on its soil. India accepted last week it

If Pakistan were Turkey, Pakistani military commanders would have been publicly warning by now to send fighter jets into Afghanistan to pound the secret supply routes that are

Two things made America more influential and awe inspiring than any other nation on the face of the earth: cowboy movies and Michael Jackson. Long before the American

Pakistan will probably never catch terrorist leader Baitullah Mehsud alive. Why? For the same reason that we will never really know why alcoholic beverages were found from some

The extent of foreign interference in Pakistan has turned our country into Swiss cheese. The ostensible meeting that a US diplomat organized at her private residence between an

Pakistan’s biggest revenue-generating business hub city of Karachi was paralyzed by ethnic violence for the third time in less than six months. Our American allies continue to create

The worst part of the continuing instability in Pakistan since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation's best and brightest to lose hope. The doomsday reporting

The CIA faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil

This is the first time that Pakistan's military joined middle-class Pakistanis in forcing change on the country's closed club of elite politicians. This may not have been intentional.

An independent judiciary is a noble cause. But as the latest political mess shows, Pakistan's existential crisis lies in the failure of its elitist politicians and in a