T can only be described as regrettable in the extreme. The positions taken by and verbal sparring between the governments of India and Pakistan in the current unhappy climate are a reality. But even more unfortunate is the way in which tensions in the aftermath of the Uri attack have gone beyond the realm of the official and have spilled …

MIDST the clamour of war this past week, the leadership of India and Pakistan at least managed to point in the right direction when talking about the challenges their countries face. That direction is poverty. Between them, India and Pakistan have the dubious honour of having the world`s largest concentration of poor people. In both countries, close to 40pc of …

A look at the batting records Babar Azam achieved during the three-match series against West Indies in UAE 2 Batsmen to score centuries in each match of a three-match ODI series. Babar Azam became the second cricketer to achieve this after South Africa’s Quinton De Kock achieved the feat against India in 2013-14. Azam also surpassed de Kock’s record of …

World Bank proposal was for the three eastern rivers to be ceded to India, in return for funding for dams, barrages and link canal under the ‘Indus Basin Replacement Works’ (IBRW), to transfer surplus water from the western rivers to the canals in north and south Punjab, deprived of the waters of Ravi and Sutlej rivers. Tarbela dam was built …

Lahore—The recently announced result of the Central Superior Services of Pakistan (CSS) gives a clue of the overall deteriorating standard of education in the country as 98% of the candidates failed to pass written test. Every year, thousands of graduates try their luck in the crème de la crème exam of Pakistan to grab a respectable post in the bureaucratic …

Likely Front-Runners Of the 376 candidates this year, 148 are organisations. Russian activist Svetlana Gannushkina Gannushkina has “a long record as an advocate for human rights, democracy and historical reconciliation in Russia and its neighborhood. Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi Moniz, the U.S. energy secretary, and Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, were key players …

When the leaders of India, Iran and Afghanistan gathered in Tehran in the spring for a ceremony marking India`s development of a strategic Iranian port, they recited Persian poetry and said their partnership would `alter the course of history` On a recent visit, roughly 13 years after India first agreed to develop the port of Chabahar, a single ship floated …

Political corruption and its fall out is again the centre of discussion, with threats to ‘shut down’ Islamabad and generally create chaos. Of course, corruption has an extremely negative impact on the working of any country and governance within it, but corruption at the top of the pyramid also has a far wider effect on shaping the nature of society …

The human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir had reached a level of brutality to be considered atrocities, when the Uri attack took place. Both the essentially indigenous popular mass movement against state repression and the militant attack on the Indian military base were blamed by the government of India on Pakistan. Thus began another episode of escalating tension, build-up of …

India has a history of carrying out false flag operations to achieve its goals. The Uri attack, and before that the Pathankot incident, had all the hallmarks of false flag operations. The Ganga hijack in 1971 was also such an operation. Also called stage-managed activity or conspiracy theories, such operations are becoming a norm in modern world. Author Richard Dolan …