This is unbelievable! Through a surreptitious manoeuver, the world’s three most influential cricketing countries have managed to divide the world cricket on the basis of money-making clout and credentials.

Foreign policy of a nation is always predicated on where you want to go as a sovereign nation and an independent state. This is the basic determinant of a country’s foreign policy. In our case, at the time of our independence, like Alice in Wonderland, we just did not know which way to go and this turned out to be …

The genesis of the ongoing Afghan crisis is rooted in the chaos and conflict that engulfed this unfortunate country in the aftermath of the Soviet Afghan war.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s latest visit to Beijing aroused great interest as well as curiosity among the people, especially after governmental claims on the outcome of the visit. According to Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal, at least 19 agreements were signed during this visit, involving a huge portfolio of Chinese investment worth $45.6 billion. There were all sorts of speculations on …

Indeed, a nation, like an individual, is an organic entity that goes through different life-stages from birth and infancy to the identity crisis of adolescence, then budding into maturity and adulthood, and if not nourished and groomed properly through institutional strength with political, economic, social and moral steadiness, like a handicapped human body, first suffering inertia and purposelessness and then …

In an editorial last month (July 05, 2014), The New York Times lamented ‘India’s role in the nuclear race’ in South Asia and questioned the double standards being applied in a country-specific preferential treatment to it by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a 48-member body established in 1974 after India’s first nuclear test to ensure that civilian trade in nuclear …

Nawaz Sharif’s decision to go to India to be a part of Narendra Modi’s coronation was not the right decision. The question to reckon with should have been whether someone with Modi’s dreary past and junky baggage would respond with the same sincerity. Modi’s invitation to the Saarc leaders to attend his oath-taking ceremony was nothing but a patronizing gesture …

The 5th Youm-e-Shuhada, held at the garrisons all over the country, this year served a special purpose. It was an occasion as every year since 2010 for the nation to pay homage to the ultimate sacrifices rendered by its martyrs for the cause of their motherland. But more than that, it also served to awaken the nation from its disgusting …

Foreign policy of a nation is always predicated on where you want to go as a sovereign and independent state. This is the basic determinant of a country’s foreign policy. In our case, at the time of our independence, like Alice in Wonderland, we did not know which way to go and this turned out to be the first dilemma …

The ongoing Iranian nuclear crisis is all about a global nuclear order, based on what India’s former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh once described as ‘nuclear apartheid.’ To our friends in the Western world, the nuclear question has traditionally been uni-dimensional. The symptom, not disease, is their problem. Their undivided focus has been on non-proliferation only as a concept which …