NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s three-pronged crisis-an economy perpetually on the brink of collapse, a political dispensation dictated by the military, and the scourge of terrorists coming home to roost, is unlikely to ease anytime soon, says India’s former high commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal . As for the downgraded bilateral relations, nothing will change until the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan yet again finds itself at the crossroads: the economy is in bad shape, the currency has been in free fall, inflation has gone through the roof and if that wasn’t bad enough, a caretaker government is supposedly in charge till the next general elections. However, one institution that has gained more control […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For perhaps the nth time in Pakistan’s history, the army is back in the saddle with an interim government acting as the front for its interests. In this conversation on The Gist, Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal says the current situation confirms the point that army chief Gen. Asim Munir has consolidated his position. The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan stretches more than 2,600 km from the mountainous terrain of the Wakhan Corridor in the north east to the flat desert of Nimroz province in the south … terrain that is no challenge to fighters determined to wage jihad in Pakistan and the figures bear it out. A recent […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “President Arif Alvi has sacked his secretary Waqar Ahmed immediately,” tweeted Pakistani journalist Azaz Syed adding, “Secretary to President removed. Surrendered to Establishment Division.” Clearly, the president saw the need to distance himself from his earlier complicity (or stupidity) in not ensuring two bills, giving the army vast new powers, were returned to […]Read More
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